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This nearly 70-page EIA, prepared for the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), investigates the Ok Tedi copper–gold mine’s impact on Papua New Guinea’s Fly–Ok Tedi River system. It reveals that approximately 80,000 tonnes of ore-processing residues—plus comparable volumes of waste rock and overburden—are discharged into the headwaters daily
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. Over decades, this dumping has elevated river beds, causing altered flow patterns, severe flooding, and erosion of nearby croplands and forests.

PNG government has released its new forestry guidelines, with and intention to reform the forestry industry operating in the country. This process began with the bar netting quarry in the late 80s portrayed part of the industry as out of control. In 1991 a new forestry act began changing the way timber were being harvested. The computing courses allow weather offices to analyse and advice on the weather of their own countries. Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 23:34

Logging in PNG get out of hand and what lessons from other South Pacific countries have to learn from experience. Concern with human rights, land rights in the environment, the PNG Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 26:08

This data is downloaded from World Data for Protected Area site. These statistics might differ from those reported officially due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area with the updated inventory.

Protected areas of papua new guinea

The Pacific BioScapes Programme is supporting public awareness for sea turtle protection in Papua New Guinea. The protection of sea turtles in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an ongoing issue. The PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority will be assisted to raise awareness of the threats to sea turtle species in Papua New Guinea through a major turtle protection public awareness campaign.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1 p.

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The PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority will be assisted to raise awareness of the threats to sea turtle species in Papua New Guinea through a major turtle protection public awareness campaign in districts where illegal or excessive turtle take is occurring. Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1 p.

This Policy on Protected Areas (the Policy) has been developed by the Government of Papua New Guinea to support the development and management of a National Protected Area Network in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It will guide communities, organizations and agencies to harmonise their efforts in a structured and logical approach to the sustainability of existing and the development of new protected areas. The Policy offers a

Systematic conservation planning identifies priority areas to cost-effectively
meet conservation targets. Yet, these tools rarely guide wholesale declaration
of reserve systems in a single time step due to financial and implementation
constraints. Rather, incremental scheduling of actions to progressively build
reserve networks is required. To ensure this incremental action is guided by
the original plan, and thus builds a reserve network that meets all conservation