Within the Pacific over the last two decades there has been greater recognition of the pre-existing tools within indigenous communities for natural resource management. Periodic tambu (Tok Pisin: a prohibition) is an indigenous resource management tool often used across Papua New Guinea. On Manus Island terrestrial periodic tambu areas are characterised by a cycle of resource closure followed by instantaneous harvest.
Estimations of survival rates of small mammal populations that occur on the isiand of New Guinea are crucial for conservation and management strategies. Here, we used mark-recapfure data in programme MARK to estimate apparent survival and defection of two murid species in a tropical rainforest in Papua New Guinea. The most parsimonious model allowed survival and recapture probability to vary by species.
A major gap exists in integrating climate projections
and social–ecological vulnerability analyses at
scales that matter, which has affected local-scale adaptation
planning and actions to date. We address this gap by
providing a novel methodology that integrates information on: (i) the expected future climate, including climate-related
To examine species richness patterns in Papua New Guinea’s terrestrialvertebrates test for geographical congruence between the four classes, and between lizard and snake subgroups. To assess the environmental correlates of Papua New Guinean terrestrial-vertebrate richness, and contrast effects of varying analytical resolution and correction for spatial autocorrelation.
Small Island Developing States in the South Pacific are particularly vulnerable to the effects of marine climate change due to their proximity to the ocean and their reliance on it for resources and transportation.
A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges
SHARKS and RAYS of PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Socio-economics of trawl fisheries
Annual Report
Mineral exploitation has spread from land to shallow coastal waters and is now planned for the offshore, deep seabed. Large seafloor areas are being approved for exploration for seafloor mineral deposits, creating an urgent need for regional environmental management plans. Networks of areas where mining and mining impacts are prohibited are key elements of these plans.
The biggest deep-sea mining operation so far was a cold-war ruse. In 1974, the US Central Intelligence Agency launched an elaborate operation to recover a Soviet submarine northwest of Hawaii, under the cover of a commercial venture to mine manganese nodules located on the sea floor. The spooks got a piece of the submarine but left any valuable minerals in the area for future prospectors.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the largest countries in the Western Central Pacific region and is now the third largest producer of bêche-de-mer in the world, supplying around 10 percent of the global market.
Papua New Guinea’s Exclusive Economic Zone (PNG EEZ), 2.4 million km2 in extent, is one of the largest and more productive in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Industrial scale fisheries for tuna and associated species have operated since the 1950s, and in certain years, around 10% of the global catch of the main market species of tuna has been taken within the PNG EEZ. The tuna fishery is the largest of Papua New Guinea’s fisheries and represents a balance of both domestic industry development and foreign Distant Water Fishing Nations (DWFN) access arrangements.