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Tonga State of Environment Report 2018

 Department of Environment,  Tonga
 Atmosphere and Climate  Land  Biodiversity  Built Environment  Coastal and Marine  Culture and Heritage  Inland Waters

The Tonga State of the Environment 2018 report has been developed to answer three key questions related
to the environment of Tonga, and is based on seven thematic areas:
• What is the current condition of the Tongan environment?
• What are the risks the Tongan environment faces and what measures have been put forward to minimise them? This could provide lessons for Tonga.
• Where is the environment of Tonga headed based on the assessed thematic areas?

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Rural Development Alleviate Poverty PNG 2005

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
 Land  Built Environment  Culture and Heritage

Research papers on rural development and poverty in PNG as part of the Asia-Pacific Viewpoint Journal Volume 46.

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2019 PNG State of the Environment Report _First Draft 16.07.19

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
 Land  Biodiversity  Built Environment  Coastal and Marine  Culture and Heritage  Inland Waters

PNG is endowed with rich natural resources and culture and is known as one of the cultural and mega biodiversity hotspots globally. Located on the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, PNG contains roughly 1 percent of the global landmass, with four major islands and over 600 islands and atolls. PNG also has one of the diverse reef system in the world and has a total of 3.12 square kilometers of economic exclusive zone (EEZ) of marine territory. Over 840 spoken languages exist and spoken by over 1000 different tribes.

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The New Guinea challenge: development and conservation in societies of great cultural and biological diversity: The human footprints; Community Infrastructure Footprints; Agirculture and Development Footprints; Regional Ecological Communities; Conservation and Protection Areas of Various types and tenures; Priority Conservation Areas; Action for a Conservation Landscapes; Capacity Building; Conservation Challenges; New Guinea Region Statistics; Data sources, References and Acknowledgements;

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Culture and Heritage  Built Environment

The main map shows that higher population densities occur (i) around and inland from major coastal towns, (ii) in the elevated PNG Highlands (H) and the Baliem Valley (B) of Papua, and (iii) along most of the coasts of the mainland and major islands. The distributions of inhabited places and of annual fires reveal that people and their effects are widely dispersed across much of the landscape. However, vast landscapes in the upper catchments of the Mamberamo River (M) in Papua and in parts of the upper Fly River (F) and Sepik River (S) in PNG remain sparsely inhabited.