The New Guinea Challenge - Development and Conservation in Societies of Great Cultural and Biological diversity
The 2020 State of Environment Report is the first for Papua New Guinea.
Conservation needs asessment for PNG
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
Biodiversity conservation
Physical Description: 61 p.