…Kwebanna residents… are deeply concerned by two logging concessions which cover a large area of the village’s untitled traditional land. One is held by Barama and the other was earlier controlled by Mazaharally and Sons Ltd since the 1990s, but new information indicates that Bai Shan Lin has acquired interests in the area through Kwebanna Wood Products. The precise status, including information on the beneficial ownership, of this concession is unclear. Villagers complain that the industrial logging has ‘eaten out’ their land and that there will be no resources left for their grandchildren.…The GFC has explained that there is no logging taking place by the company in these villages and that the titles show up as part of the concession because some of them have been ‘granted’ after the Barama concession was allocated…Several concession holders are known to threaten Amerindian villagers and tell them to stay out of concession areas. Despite national laws recognising certain rights to customary lands, concession holders have often stated that communities have no rights there… Community loggers from Mashabo report being harassed by a concession holder even when they were working outside his concession area – he seized 10 chainsaws from the local loggers… Residents from Kwebanna explain that they were fined by the GFC for ‘illegal logging’ inside their own traditional untitled lands, claimed by the Commission to be state land…