Returning Minister for Forests Hon. Solan Mirisim has described 2022 as a challenging year with the forthcoming general elections but has stressed the need for staff to work together for successful outcomes.

Thanking outgoing Forest Minister Hon. Walter Schnaubelt when addressing staff at the Papua New Guinea Forest Authority (PNGFA) headquarters in Port Moresby on January 17th 2022, Minister Mirisim said: “I thank the outgoing Minister Hon. Walter Schnaubelt who has done a lot from where I left. I will continue where he left and also look at policy directions that were started but didn’t eventuate. But everything will fall into place when the directors and staff work together. The Managing Director, Board Chair and I cannot achieve on our own. All of you work with us to achieve policy directions.”

The newly appointed Minister for Forests Hon. Walter Schnaubelt has encouraged staff of Papua New Guinea Forest Authority (PNGFA) to work as a team to achieve the objectives of the Forestry sector.He said this when taking over the Ministry from Hon. Solan Mirisim at the PNGFA headquarters in Port Moresby on January 12^th, 2021.

Minister Schnaubelt said: “Taking on the new ministry will depend

Papua New Guinea Forest Authority (PNGFA) should start collecting K20 per cubic meter based on log harvest to implement and drive the new corporate restructure,’ National Forest Service Managing Director Mr. Tunou Sabuin said during the handover-takeover of the Forest Minister on January 12^th, 2021 in Port Moresby.

MD Sabuin said: “I believe that all the directions that the PNGFA set to move forward are all enshrined and stipulated in

The Member for Telefomin and current Minister of Defence Hon. Solan Mirisim says the forestry sector has more to contribute to the positive development of Papua New Guinea but needs support in its areas of need in order for it to deliver.

Mr. Mirisim said this when officially handing over the Forest ministerial portfolio to the Member for Namatanai Hon. Walter Schnaubelt on January 12^th,