This dataset depicts Bumbu River flood warning dataset obtained at CIS, LAE, Morobe Province
Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA) is seeking to hire a local consultant to develop the Policy on Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources under the Nagoya Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The consulting project is established in partnership with the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney) and funded by the GIZ-led, European Union (EU) funded multi-donor Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) Capacity Development Initiative (CDI) Pacific Regional Project.
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In Papua New Guinea, interviews were conducted remotely with participants from government departments, agencies and contractors addressing issues of environmental protection, waste management, legal matters, as well as the private sector and NGOs.
Additional interviews were conducted with external consultants and SPREP staff working on specific programs relevant to the Waste Legislative Review.
Dolphins and whales of Bismarch sea
The impacts of human-induced environmental change that characterize the Anthropocene are not felt equally across the globe. In the tropics, the potential for the sudden collapse of ecosystems in response to multiple interacting pressures has been of increasing concern in ecological and conservation research. The tropical ecosystems of Papua New Guinea are areas of diverse rainforest flora and fauna, inhabited by human populations that are equally diverse, both culturally and linguistically.
This report provides a snapshot of waste audit generation and composition across the business and household waste streams for six locations within PNG. The study conducted audits in Port Moresby and Roku Village in the Central Province, received data from audits conducted in Lae and Alotau, and sourced historical data from audits conducted in Kokopo (2018) and Goroka (2019)
Protected areas data was derived from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) dataset (source: www.protectedplanet.net). Exclusive Economic Zone data was derived from Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM), version 11. Available online at http:// www.marineregions.org
Protected areas data was derived from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) dataset (source: www.protectedplanet.net). Exclusive Economic Zone data
was derived from Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM), version 11. Available online at : http://www.marineregions.org/.
EU-Organisations of African Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA)
Shipping traffic on marine mammals
UN Sustainable Development Goal
Lae Port Development
Health Policy
Fire and Sustainable Agricultural and Forestry Development
Crocodile reclassification
The result of the 2017 survey of businesses in PNG
MARINE BIODIVERSITY SURVEY FINAL REPORT, 2018
What can be learnt from the past? A history of the forestry sector in Papua New Guinea