The project Mangrove Rehabilitation for Sustainably Managed Healthy Forests (MARSH) commenced on October 1st 2012 and ended on September 30th 2015. The project was initially supposed to be implemented over five years in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. In the first quarter of Year 3 the donor decided to change the focus from community based to national interventions for greater impact and to limit the rest of the activities of the third year to PNG alone. The project life span was thus shortened and there was nothing started in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
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
Coral bleaching
Marine fisheries
Marine datasets from FAO
Tuna Fishery Report Card 2018
SHARKS and RAYS of PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Socio-economics of trawl fisheries
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Comission
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Forum
Ocean resources and impact of climate change
Lae Port Development
Rapid Marine Biodiversity Assessment of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea—Survey II (2000)
Fisheries
Coral Triangle documents
Biodiversity Conservation of terrestrial and amrine ecosystems