The teamwork is there again when the Rainbow Warrior stocks up with provisions to feed us all. We load the food into the storage areas by forming a big chain of hands down the main corridor. This gives me a chance to take a good look at what’s coming on board. Lots of fresh fruit! Yum!

I haven't officially moved on board yet. I’m here in the Port Moresby office, which is currently a bustling hub. In addition to the local staff, Rainbow Warrior crew, visiting project leaders and campaigners, there’s a steady stream of volunteers passing through on their way out to the Global Forest Rescue Station (GFRS) at Lake Murray.

Activists from Japan and China, the main markets for the timber illegally logged in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) forests, arrive. They head out to the forest at the same time we set sail, so life is a whirl of people from all over the planet coming in and out of here off to do exciting missions. Makes for great chats over a cuppa.

And some news just in: Forest Trends, a leading international forestry organisation, has released a new report on logging in PNG which highlights the extent of the situation we’re up against in the Paradise Forests.

It says: “…the overwhelming majority of current commercial industrial forestry operations in PNG are ecologically and economically unsustainable, and, in fact, illegal, as found by the government's own commissioned independent audits conducted between 2000 and 2005".

Take a look at the report, Logging, Legality and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea: Synthesis of Official Assessments of the Large-Scale Logging Industry, on the Forest Trends website.