19 May 2006
Lake Murray’s marketing department
Watching the sawmilling
© Greenpeace/ Behring
At the latest meeting of the Lake Murray Resource Owners Association (LMROA), a business arm that will focus on marketing local eco-timber to international markets was born.
Lake Murray Eco-timber Enterprises Ltd will be a company that is owned by the clan ecoforestry projects and will arrange transport and packing of timber for export. A barge has already been refloated and is being fitted out to transport the eco-timber down the lake and rivers.
Meanwhile, we’ve been busy deep in the forest. In one week, just under 10,000 ha of lands were demarcated. Three teams, made up of foresters from our NGO partner FPCD, and Greenpeace volunteers, were staying in the remotest parts of the boundary areas, with clan leaders and hunters there to show us all the way. For the Catfish clan we marked 3,400 ha, black crocodile 4,800, and Cuscus bamboo 1,200 ha.
The boundary marking is continuing, as is sawmill training. Many participants and observers from the clan eco-forestry projects joined the tree felling and sawmilling training in the new village of Awekaim. The village has been established next to the Ogia ecoforestry project and will be the first to mill eco-timber and export to Australia.
The sawmilling is being done under supervision. Soon, the clan projects will be able to do it all by themselves!
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