A woman from Omati village wears a head dress made of cassowary bird feathers. She stands at one of the 'sacred sites' belonging to her people in the rainforests of the 'Turama extension' logging concession, near the village of Omati. These forests are being felled by Turama Forest Industries - a group company of Malaysian logging giant Rimbunan Hijau.
In 1995, the Papua New Guinea government granted 1.7 million hectares as a logging ‘extension’ to Turama Forest Industries – the extension was almost 10 times bigger than the original concession. The timber permit for this new concession, called Turama Extension is valid for 35 years (until 2030).