10 paged document outlining the development and conservation in societies of great cultural and biological diversity in New Guinea of PNG. This was published in 2003
The island of New Guinea harbours one of the world’s largest tracts of intact tropical forest, with 41% of its land
The American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (AS-EPA) and the NOAA Coral Reef Advisory Group sponsored a four-day Erosion and Sediment Control (ESC) and Post-Construction Stormwater (PCS) Management Training...The workshop was held as an effort to improve the awareness of construction
Biodiversity offsets (BO) are increasingly promoted and adopted by governments and companies worldwide as a policy instrument to compensate for biodiversity losses from infrastructure development projects. To provide a framing for understanding the empirical diversity of BO policy designs, we present an ideal-typical typology based on the institutions from which BO is organised: Public Agency, Mandatory Market and Voluntary Offset.
Conservationists in Northland say the Whangārei District Council needs to get real about climate change after a hectare of native forest was felled to make way for a subdivision. Link to full article below.
A huge roadbuilding scheme in Papua New Guinea could imperil some of the largest, biologically richest and culturally most diverse forests on the planet, says an international research team led by James Cook University in Australia.Click on the link below to read the full article.
Newsroom's investigations editor Melanie Reid has been pursuing the environmental desecration of a Fijian island by a Chinese developer, Freesoul Real Estate, since late last year.
Look around you and you will likely see cement in use. That is, unless you are reading this on a mobile device out in an entirely natural landscape – in which case, stop and enjoy your surroundings! Click on the link below to read the full article.
Though we share this big, blue planet with thousands of species, human beings don’t always show the respect we should to the animal kingdom. Nowhere is that more apparent than in our waste-filled, polluted oceans and seas. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity"s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact. Click on the link below to read the full article.