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Forests that are managed primarily for economic benefits are critical for biodiversity conservation, a United Nations report said. Mainstreaming biodiversity in such ‘production forests’ is paramount, said Mainstreaming biodiversity in forestry by the UN body Food and

A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities said Thursday.

Flinders University paleontologists, working with Australian National University archaeologists and geoscientists, have used new techniques to re-examine megafauna bones from the rich Nombe Rock Shelter fossil site in Chimbu Province in a bid to better understand the intriguing natural history of

Buyers of Ian Gowrie-Smith’s private atoll in Papua New Guinea must show care for the islands and maintain conservation activities, but will anyone cough up? Each of the 21 islands is ringed by powder-white sand and capped with jungle, teeming with butterflies, tropical orchids and PNG’s fab

Villagers are pushing back against logging operations they say are encroaching on designated conservation areas.

The conservation of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in the country will not affect the livelihoods of the fishing communities.

Pacific island countries, including PNG, took part in a blue carbon training which the Australian Government provided last month in Australia.

The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) recently put out a call for new and renewed membership to the PIRTs Protected Area Working Group (PAWG, part of a multi-tiered effort at rebranding the working group and its focus to take on a more network-oriented role and approach.

A push is on to try to protect two-thirds of the world’s oceans. The so-called High Seas Treaty would deal with all seas outside countries’ territorial limits.

A ceremony near the remote community of Tjuntjunjara has celebrated the dedication of Anangu Tjutaku Indigenous Protected Area, Australia’s third largest Indigenous Protected Area.