October 13, 2022
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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 fabled birds of paradise. Yet the Conflict Group’s greatest bounty is found not above but below the gin-clear waterline, where highways of brightly coloured fish, manta rays and schools of blacktip reef sharks pulse around vibrant coral gardens.
