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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

The total area in PNG gazetted under Conservation for both marine and terrestrial environments only represents about 3.8% of the country's land area.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Comparisons of the countries with the largest forest areas (representing 90% of the global primary forest area reported to FRA, 2015

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 PNG Forestry Authority

PNG has a total of about 46.9 million hectare of which 77.8% is forested with 13 natural forest
types and forest plantations with various species planted. The second major land
use in PNG is cropland, which covers 11.0% of the total land area. Grassland covers 5.3% and
wetland comprised 4.8% of the total land mass. Other Land including bare soil and rock covers
0.2% of the total land area. Settlements including villages and cities cover 0.9% of the land area.

Source: Papua New Guinea’s National REDD+ Forest Reference Level 2017

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

This is the final report prepared by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) for submission to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Papua New Guinea Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA) in relation to the 2016–17 assessment of the management effectiveness of Papua New Guinea’s protected areas.

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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Biodiversity Conservation of terrestrial and amrine ecosystems

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 Climate Change Directorate

Jaluit Atoll Ramsar Information Sheet, 2003.

 Climate Change Directorate

maps of RMI's protected areas

 Climate Change Directorate

dataset with data pertaining to livestock (piglet) distribution by R&D for outer islands in the fiscal year 2014 - 2015. This data was analyzed in the current SOE

 Climate Change Directorate

RMI Protected Areas data from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), downloaded August 2019. This dataset includes both tables and spatial data.

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Dataset contains a series of maps that are used in the 2021 Republic of the Marshall Islands State of the Environment Report.  Resources within this dataset may be sued for other reporting purposes.

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 Nauru Department of Commerce,  Industry and Environment

The map shows areas of critical importance for the biodiversity and ecosystems of Nauru's terrestrial and marine environments.

 Nauru Department of Commerce,  Industry and Environment

Map of the Nauru Island hydrology feature, Buada Lagoon and areas of land development.

 Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE),  Samoa

SPREP is leading the charge to make the Pacific Games in July go plastic free in an awareness and outreach initiative aptly called Greening of the Games. This dataset holds a draft report and a raw baseline data collected from a clean-up at Mulinu'u executed on the 11th May 2019 by the the Team Samoa Va'a, to contextualize solutions and interventions to address marine litter and plastic pollution.

 Department of Environment,  Tonga
 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

PNG's forest cover loss 2000-2017 downloaded from [www.globalforestwatch.org](https://www.globalforestwatch.org/)

From 2001 to 2017, Papua New Guinea lost 1.28Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 3.0% decrease since 2000, and 158Mt of CO₂ of emissions.

 Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Today, May 10th, in addition to being SIDS Day, coincides with the release, in Nairobi, Kenya, of the third
edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3). This major new assessment of the current state of
biodiversity and the implications of its continued loss for human well-being was produced by the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the broadest international treaty for the conservation and
sustainable use of biodiversity and the equitable sharing of the benefits from the utilization of genetic

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)

The biodiversity of the Pacific region is recognised as being globally significant. The Solomon Islands was recently included into the famous "Coral Triangle", the area of ocean considered to have the highest marine biodiversity in the world. This includes the waters of the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The Solomon Islands Rainforest Ecoregion is recognised as "one of the world's great Centres of Plant Diversity"

 Australian Government

The maintenance and enhancement of arboreal biodiversity, especially forest and tree genetic resources, is vital for sustainable development in the Pacific Islands. For Pacific peoples, their forest and tree genetic resources are not just a matter of scientific, economic (in monetary terms), recreational or ecological value. They are a capital inheritance that, until recent times, was passed on, relatively intact or in some cases enhanced, by past generations to current generations.