A Milestone Report for Department of the Environment (November 2017)
Papua New Guinea is committed to the establishment of a network of marine protected areas to fulfil national and international commitments. In order to assist this, the conservation priority areas analysis identified a range of areas of high conservation interest in the PNG marine environment, based on the principles of comprehensiveness, adequacy, representation and resilience (CARR). The analysis collated available national-scale data on biodiversity features and biodiversity surrogates.
Locally Managed Areas Map in Pdf
Papua New Guinea is committed to the establishment of a network of marine protected areas
to fulfil national and international commitments. In order to assist this, the conservation
priority areas analysis identified a range of areas of high conservation interest in the PNG
marine environment, based on the principles of comprehensiveness, adequacy,
representation and resilience (CARR). The analysis collated available national-scale data on
biodiversity features and biodiversity surrogates.
DEC
Species
Biological survey
Marine fisheries
Marine fisheries
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is committed to the establishment of a network of protected areas to fulfil national and international commitments.
Marine datasets from FAO
Sharks conservation
Reconstructing Papua New Guinea’s Marine Fisheries Catch, 1950-2010
Conservation Status of Marine Biodiversity in Oceania.
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a conservation NGO working globallly and in PNG
SHARKS and RAYS of PAPUA NEW GUINEA
PNG National Fisheries Authority
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Comission
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Forum