Tonda Wildlife Management Area on the southern extremity of Papua New Guinea’s border with Indonesia is PNG’s largest and oldest conservation area and its only Ramsar site. For over 20 years it has been managed by a committee of indigenous leaders drawn from 20 village communities. While this group has provided strong local level protection of land, lack of support to the committee has meant that the full potential of community management has not been realised. Furthermore threats on a regional and international scale cannot be easily
dealt with by current community institutions.
This is Papua New Guinea's National Ramsar Report to the Conference of Partties 13th meeting (COP 13) 2018.
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The New Guinea Challenge - Development and Conservation in Societies of Great Cultural and Biological diversity