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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international agreement which aims to ensure the safe handling, transport and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effects on biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health.

Papua New Guinea is a party to the Cartagena Protocol and this is the first national report on the country's implementation of the protocol.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Considered as one of the world’s biodiversity rich countr
ies, Papua New
Guinea ranks among the megadiverse countries and the last frontiers for
biodiversity conservation. This land of diversity hosts 6
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8% of the global
species, hosts one
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sixth of known languages, and rivals Borneo, the Amazon
and the Congo in t
erms of biodiversity wealth. PNG comprises the eastern
half of the largest tropical island on earth, along with hundreds of smaller

 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
 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

This report contributes to the development of a marine gap analysis for Papua New Guinea’s marine area. ” The gap analysis identifies conservation priorities throughout Papua New Guinea’s marine area to inform protected area
planning, environmental impact assessment and other biodiversity conservation interventions.

Contact Emails: [email protected] OR [email protected]

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

This research provides information to assist PNG with the development of the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) framework. It expands the work done by Dr. Eric L Kwa (Biodiversity Law and Policy in Papua New Guinea) in 2004 for PINBio.