PAPUA NEW GUINEA: SAWMILL

(31 Mar 1994) EF 609D - PAPUA NEW GUINEA: SAWMILL
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SYNOPSIS:
With the world's timber industry becoming ever more global and mechanized, countries such as Thailand have been severely affected by an illegal logging trade worth billions of dollars, and face the almost total loss of their primary rainforest. But in neighbouring Papua New Guinea a new, small-scale logging technique based on a portable 'walkabout sawmill' has enabled local people to benefit from profitable timber manufacture at the same time as preserving the rainforest as a precious resource.
SHOWS: cu hardwood tree being felled with chain-saw and dragged out of rainforest; Sioba Dodi, village elder in Madang province, Papua New Guinea, sot in Pidgin with English translation on damage to forest caused by commercial logging; man felling hardwood tree with chain-saw; tree falling with creak in forest; bulldozer towing log flattening saplings in its path; bulldozer towing log along mud track to collection area; cu damaged tree stump; churned up earth; flow of stream interrupted by felled logs; pan of devastated forest with stagnant pools where clear-felling has been carried out; night shot lorry along road in Thailand carrying illegal shipment of logs from Burma; day shots police raid on illegeal logging operation in eastern Thailand; carved teak doors loaded onto van in Bangkok; teak doors being carved in factory; Sunee Ekbundit, teak door shop owner, sot on high demand for them; aerial of clouds over dense Papua New Guinea rainforest; men walking through forest, wading through stream, carrying walkabout sawmill on their shoulders; men assembling sawmill on felled tree trunk; men operating sawmill, starting it up, sawdust flying; Yauna Oseda, sawmill operator, sot in Pidgin with English translation on prosperity it has brought; cu walkabout sawmill cutting planks in forest; planks being stacked on back of buffalo cart; women by fire in village of Sowara, on north coast of Papua New Guinea; women bundling leaves; women and girl planting rosewood seedlings in tree nursery; man making dug-out canoe from rosewood trunk by palm trees on shore; men being taught at walkabout sawmill training centre; man checking sawmill's oil dipstick; man measuring diameter of tree-trunk; boys carrying sawn planks through forest.
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