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 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Guidelines, brochures, Indicators and published work on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity which is an international treaty governing the movements of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology from one country to another.

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 Department of Environment,  Tuvalu

Presenting the estimated areas of different land use/land cover types present in Tuvalu. This data was presented in both the 4th and 5th national reports to the CBD.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

PNG Threatened Endemic Plants and Animals Species. This was published as part of 5th CBD National Report.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Fifth National Report on the Species richness of PNG and world higher vertebrates

 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 Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
 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"