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The New Guinea challenge: development and conservation in societies of great cultural and biological diversity: The human footprints; Community Infrastructure Footprints; Agirculture and Development Footprints; Regional Ecological Communities; Conservation and Protection Areas of Various types and tenures; Priority Conservation Areas; Action for a Conservation Landscapes; Capacity Building; Conservation Challenges; New Guinea Region Statistics; Data sources, References and Acknowledgements;

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Culture and Heritage  Built Environment

The main map shows that higher population densities occur (i) around and inland from major coastal towns, (ii) in the elevated PNG Highlands (H) and the Baliem Valley (B) of Papua, and (iii) along most of the coasts of the mainland and major islands. The distributions of inhabited places and of annual fires reveal that people and their effects are widely dispersed across much of the landscape. However, vast landscapes in the upper catchments of the Mamberamo River (M) in Papua and in parts of the upper Fly River (F) and Sepik River (S) in PNG remain sparsely inhabited.

Pacific Regional Framework for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of Culture

 Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
 Culture and Heritage

The Pacific Regional Framework comprising this Background Note. Model Law and Explanatory Memorandum, has been developed to assist Pacific Island countries and territories wishing to legally protect its Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of Culture. The framework is developed in response to calls from the region, in the face of increasing exploitation and inappropriate commercialization of their traditional knowledge and expressions of culture.

Available online

Call Number: [EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 982-203-933-6