PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
Atmosphere and Climate Land Biodiversity Built Environment Coastal and Marine Culture and Heritage Inland Waters
The New Guinea Challenge - Development and Conservation in Societies of Great Cultural and Biological diversity
PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
Conservation needs asessment for PNG
PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
A conservation planning study in Papua New Guinea (PNG) addresses the role of
biodiversity surrogates and biodiversity targets, in the context of the trade-offs required
for planning given real-world costs and constraints. In a trade-offs framework, surrogates
must be judged in terms of their success in predicting general biodiversity
complementarity values – the amount of additional biodiversity an area can contribute to
a protected set. Wrong predictions of low complementarity (and consequent allocation of