Graphs and tables quantifying the distribution of livestock and seedlings to the outer islands through the Livestock Project and Horticulture Project by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Commerce and the Taiwan Technical Mission.
List of conservation areas with area protected and management plan status within the RMI as of September 24, 2020.
Graphs to illustrate the information extracted during the Waste Collection Survey.
It is a tool compromising of transparent procedures and processes to assist and guide decision makers in resolving public complaints/concerns pertaining to intervention/activities implemented under the GCF-UNEP Programme, Enhancing Climate Information and Knowledge Services for resilience in 5 Pacific countries (UNEP CIS-Pac5).
Objectives:
In 2015–2016, the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG), through its Conservation and Environmental Protection Authority (CEPA) and with the support of United Nations Development Program (UNDP), organised an evaluation of its protected areas, as part of the process to improve management effectiveness.
PNG’s Policy on Protected Areas commits to regular evaluation of management effectiveness and to taking remedial action to improve effectiveness over time.
1) At administrative level 1 these tables do not refer to the National Capital District or to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. The National Capital District is combined with the Central Province and Bougainville is combined with the North Solomons province.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the largest Pacific Island country in total land area (some 460,000 square kilometers (sq km) and second in respect to ocean area (some 3 million sq km within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). PNG’s population of over some 6 million people is sparsely distributed: population density strands at about 9 people per sq km which is the lowest in the south pacific region.
Author : National CTI Coordinating Committee of Papua New Guinea ; published in 2012; Technical Report
The lobster fishery in the Torres Strait is one of the six fisheries managed under
Article 22 of the Torres Strait Treaty, which was ratified between Papua New Guinea
(PNG) and Australia in 1985. The Treaty’s main objective is to preserve the fishery
for traditional inhabitants of Torres Strait. There is limited entry for non-traditional
inhabitants and expansion is strictly reserved for traditional inhabitants. A limit of 7
licensed freezer vessels are allowed to operate in the fishery at any one time. A catch