Severe penalties will be issued to Papua New Guinea fishermen who ignore a new order postponing the start of the sea cucumber harvesting season...The Post Courier newspaper reported the beche-de-mer season was due to commence in July but had now been deferred until the 17 August.
Chiefs from 28 haus tambarans – “spirit houses” – representing 78,000 people along Papua New Guinea’s remote Sepik river have formally declared they want a proposal for the country’s largest ever mine halted.
In April 2019, researchers and members of local communities from around Bougainville completed the first survey on ants on Bougainville Island.
Women in the province of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea say they have faced increasing domestic violence, along with issues like teenage pregnancy and drug abuse, in their communities as logging and oil palm plantations have moved in.
A new report by the Human Rights Law Centre in Australia details the continuing devastation wrought by a copper and gold mine that closed more than 30 years ago in the Papua New Guinean territory of Bougainville.
In Wewak a group called 'Project Sepik', says the Papua New Guinea government should say "no" to the proposed Frieda River mining project. The East Sepik civil society group said there had been inadequate environmental impact statements conducted.
The Australian Human Rights Law Centre claims the mining giant Rio Tinto remains responsible for multiple human rights violations caused by pollution from the Panguna mine on Bougainville. The mine, the catalyst for the bloody civil war on Bougainville and responsible for widespread environ
Human activities such as alluvial mining, hunting, burning trees and bush in the PNG National Forestry Association (PNGNFA) plantation in Wau and Bulolo, Morobe, are threatening a part of the forest known as the green break, says a forestry official.
Papua New Guinea’s government plans to build more than 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) of road in the five-year period leading up to 2022. Two Mongabay reporters traveled one such road-in-progress, from Kundiawa to Gembogl in the country’s mountainous interior, a year apart.
The destructive legacy of mining often lingers for communities and ecosystems long after the operating companies leave.