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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Area of vegetation by province

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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Regional data on marine pollution: observer pollution events. Marine pollution from ships and waste incidents per country in the Pacific region. Waste composition includes: general garbage, plastics, old fishing gears, metals, waste oils, chemicals.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority,  PNG Department of National Planning & Monitoring

Data useful for SDG Reporting using DevInfo / PNGInfo.
National Statistics Office (NSO) are the Custodians of the Dataset

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Dataset that provides a direct link to PNG's data hosted on the GBIF website/ records.

Contact emails: [email protected] / [email protected]

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Dataset that provides a direct internet link to the PNG National Climate Change Portal

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Considered as one of the world’s biodiversity rich countr
ies, Papua New
Guinea ranks among the megadiverse countries and the last frontiers for
biodiversity conservation. This land of diversity hosts 6
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8% of the global
species, hosts one
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sixth of known languages, and rivals Borneo, the Amazon
and the Congo in t
erms of biodiversity wealth. PNG comprises the eastern
half of the largest tropical island on earth, along with hundreds of smaller

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

New Britain Island, off the north-east coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG), offers some of the richest biodiversity, densest forest and most spectacular natural beauty on earth. But the fight for the survival of these features is a faceoff between extraction industries and existing conservation efforts.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Welcome to PNGplants — information for students, researchers, development workers, community leaders, government and non-government agencies and others working on plant identification, conservation and diversity of plants in Papua New Guinea.
PNGplants database
An internet accessible herbarium plant collection database of plants from Papua New Guinea

PNGtrees project
An interactive identification guide to the common trees of Papua New Guinea

Plant collectors of Papua New Guinea
Information about Papua New Guinean plant collectors and support staff

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has one of the most significant areas of tropical forest in the world. These forests are, however, under threat from commercial logging, clearing of land for agricultural commodities, mining or the expansion of small-scale agriculture to meet the livelihood needs of the country's largely rural population.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

PNG Threatened Endemic Plants and Animals Species. This was published as part of 5th CBD National Report.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Fifth National Report on the Species richness of PNG and world higher vertebrates

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

The total area in PNG gazetted under Conservation for both marine and terrestrial environments only represents about 3.8% of the country's land area.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Comparisons of the countries with the largest forest areas (representing 90% of the global primary forest area reported to FRA, 2015

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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority
 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Figures are for wild and ranched species of both freshwater
and saltwater crocodiles

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

This Operational Manual is one such tool that will assist in standardizing and
streamlining the administrative process for handling of the environmental applications.
It is important that officers use this manual as a guide for responding to each step in the
permitting process.
Operational Manual is a dynamic and evolving document that should be continually
improved as situations arise to meet the new demands. At the same time, the improved
efficiency that is anticipated from the use of the manual would assist DEC to function