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Web-Portal by Climate Change and Development Authority and Forest Authority

Web page for National Fisheries Authority with information relevant to fisheries

The official Website of New Guinea Binatang Research Center

Official Website of PNG Forest Industries Association (Inc)

Sustainable Land Use Policy (SLUP) is a systematic and iterative procedure carried out in order to create an enabling environment for sustainable development (Wehrmann.B, 2011). It assess the physical, socio-economic, institutional and legal potentials and constraints with respect to an optimal and sustainable use of land resources and empowers people to make decisions about how to allocate those resources.

Securing our future through inclusive sustainable economic growth

A Private Data License Agreement available for use by PICs for their Environment Data Portals

Map with existing and proposed protected areas in PNG. Status on August 2017. Produced by CEPA.

Map showing tree cover gain (2001-2012) and tree cover loss (2001-2017) in PNG.
Screenshot from the Interactive Map on the Global Forest Watch website.

A Public Data License Agreement available for use by PICs for their Environment Data Portals

This report is a Desktop Study, with inputs from preliminary consultations and fact-finding in Port Moresby, namely at the National Museum and Art Gallery, Papua New Guinea and University of Papua New Guinea Library, but also at the National Library, National Archives and Australian National University Libraries in Canberra, Australia. It outlines the utility of aerial imagery from early surveys obtained since 1956 as a tool for archaeological interpretation within the AOI.

This report presents a provisional summary of archaeological excavations conducted in the surrounds of Madilogo (Ma i) as part of a study commissioned by the Department of Environment and Conservation as a Kokoda Initiative activity. Excavation site selection was based on previous predictive modelling and extrapolated evidence collected from previous fieldwork at Kosipe, Kokoda, and Madilogo excavations.

The information presented here is based on archival studies and fieldwork in the project area, as part of a social mapping project commissioned by the Department of Environment and Conservation as a Kokoda Initiative activity.

The purpose of this report is to plot series of programs that will enable the PNG National Museum and Art Gallery to develop the competencies, procedures and approaches and necessary to carry out this function in a sustainable manner so it can preserve the Kokoda and WW2 collections. This report is also aimed at identifying the priorities in the Kokoda Collection.

Author : David Hallam

Subcatchment Mapping of Koiari Rural LLG Ward 18 (Draft Final Report) 2015

Authors : John Burton with the assistance of Elton Kaitokai, Joyce Onguglo and Malcolm Keako

Citation : Burton, John E. with the assistance of Elton Kaitokai, Joyce Onguglo and Malcolm Keako (2015). The Kokoda Initiative – Subcatchment Mapping of Koiari Rural LLG Ward 18. Draft Final Report. Canberra: ANUedge for PNG Department of Environment and Conservation

This report presents the results of a stocktake of national responses to selected environment-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets in 15 Asian Development Bank (ADB) developing member countries (DMCs) from across Asia and the Pacific. The stocktake was completed under the first phase of an ADB technical assistance (TA) project on Supporting Implementation of Environment- Related Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific.

A Public Data License Agreement available for use by PICs for their Environment Data Portals

This brochure drew significantly from a technical publication by Deda et al. (submitted for publication to Natural Resources Forum), the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report on Island Systems by Wong et al. 2005, the report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Island Biodiversity, which met in Tenerife in 2004 and the draft programme of work on island biodiversity adopted by the Subsidiary Body for Scientifc, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) at its tenth meeting in 2005

This is our 8th edition of an annotated checklist of all recognized and named taxa of the world’s modern chelonian fauna, documenting recent changes and controversies in nomenclature through early 2017, and including all primary synonyms, updated from 7 previous checklists (Turtle Taxonomy Working Group 2007b, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014; Rhodin et al. 2008). We provide an updated comprehensive listing of taxonomy, names, and conservation status of all turtles and tortoises of the world, including detailed distribution maps.