The island of New Guinea hosts the third largest expanse of tropical rainforest on the planet. Papua New Guinea—comprising the eastern half of the island—plans to nearly double its national road network (from 8,700 to 15,000 km) over the next three years, to spur economic growth. We assessed these plans using fine-scale biophysical and environmental data. We identified numerous environmental and socioeconomic risks associated with these projects, including the dissection of 54 critical biodiversity habitats and diminished forest connectivity across large expanses of the island.
FAO, at the request of its member countries, regularly monitors the world´s forests and their management and uses through the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA). This country report is prepared as a contribution to the FAO publication, the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015).
The Micronesia Challenge (MC) is an agreement initiated in 2006 by the
region’s political jurisdictions to conserve both marine and terrestrial natural resources. To
assess the success of the terrestrial goals of the challenge, the Micronesia Conservation
Trust (MCT) coordinated the compilation of a list of terrestrial measures and utilized them
to summarize data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest
Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program. The MCT and FIA programs added
Ramsar Wetland Fact Sheet for Namdrik Atoll from 2009-2012.
POLICY PROPOSALS FOR OPEN AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT
PNG Needs Right To Information (RTI) Law to Address Public-Sector Corruption
Carettochelys insculpta Ramsay 1886 – Pig-Nosed Turtle, Fly River Turtle
Agency and the « Avatar » narrative at the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea
Rapid Marine Biodiversity Assessment of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea—Survey II (2000)
PNG HCV Toolkit
Turtle
Biodiversity Conservation of terrestrial and amrine ecosystems
Climate change and migration
Bismarck Sea rapid assessment
oil palm