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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 b

September 26, 2022
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The owner of 21 tropical islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea says he never threatened to sell them to China and his main aim is to save the turtles that nest there...The largely uninhabited atolls are a nesting ground for critically endangered hawksbill and green turtles, whose breeding sea