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 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Papua New Guinea has large tracts of intact mangrove forest with a high species diversity extending over many thousands of shore kilometers and, in many regions, penetrating quite deeply inland.
Mangrove ecosystem is very useful and critical to PNG coastal communities. Its uses ranges from carbon sequestration, buffers coastlines against storm surges and sea level rise, breeding ground for fisheries, building, firewood, medicinal purposes to name a few.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

In 2006, Papua New Guinea formally nominated seven identified areas for the World Heritage Tentative Listing. To date, none of these areas has been nominated to the World Heritage List. This desktop review examines the seven sites on the Papua New Guinea World Heritage Tentative list and reports on the current knowledge, condition and threats to each of these sites; as well as recommendations made to address identified issues and provide guidance for advancing the "processes of identification, protection, conservation, presentation and rehabilitation of this heritage".

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority,  PNG Forestry Authority,  PNG Department of National Planning & Monitoring,  Climate Change and Development Authority in PNG,  The Nature Conservancy

A species survey carried out by Dr Allen Allison through the UNDP small grants. The location of survey is along the KokodaTrack, Owen Stanley Range Region. The full dataset is available upon formal request.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority,  PNG Forestry Authority

Forestry Inventory Mapping System (FIMs) Vegetation Data taken form MARVin QGIS Dataset

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

The Protected Area Forum's (PAF) outcome is that the forum will enable protected area practitioners, researchers, academics, private sector, potential donors and local communities who manage or support protected areas in PNG, to share their experiences, insights and any lessons learnt in relation to factors impacting protected areas. It will identify and formulate national priorities for effective protected area management in the country. The results of the forum will contribute to the implementation of the Protected Area Policy.

 PNG Forestry Authority

Commercially Accessible Rainforest Area data sourced from:
State of the Forests Papua New Guinea 2014
Published by the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 2015

 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

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

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

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 Mineral Resources Authority

Link to the PNG Mineral Resources Authority portal.
Available layers:

* 30 Day Reserved Areas
* Mining Lease
* Special Mining Lease
* Alluvial Mining Lease
* Lease for Mining Purpose
* Mining Easement
* Exploration License
* Country
* ThirtyDayReservedAreas
* ActiveLicenses

 PNG Forestry Authority,  Climate Change and Development Authority in PNG

The Island of New Guinea is the largest tropical island in the world and contains the third largest tropical rainforest after Amazon Basin and Congo basin. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a well-known centre for biological endemism and diversification. Most forests in PNG are under customary ownership and play an important role in sustaining the traditional subsistence livelihoods of most of the population. Currently PNG’s forests are relatively intact. PNG’s forest covers 80% of the country’s land area and 60% of the forest are undisturbed.

 PNG Forestry Authority,  Climate Change and Development Authority in PNG

FAO has been monitoring the world's forests at 5 to 10 year intervals since 1946.
The Global Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) are now produced every five years in an attempt to provide a consistent approach to describing the world's forests and how they are changing. The Assessment is based on two primary sources of data: Country Reports prepared by National Correspondents and remote sensing that is conducted by FAO together with national focal points and regional partners.

 PNG Forestry Authority,  Climate Change and Development Authority in PNG

PNG has a total of about 46.9 million hectare of which 77.8% is forested with 13 natural forest
types and forest plantations with various species planted. The second major land
use in PNG is cropland, which covers 11.0% of the total land area. Grassland covers 5.3% and
wetland comprised 4.8% of the total land mass. Other Land including bare soil and rock covers
0.2% of the total land area. Settlements including villages and cities cover 0.9% of the land area.

Source: Papua New Guinea’s National REDD+ Forest Reference Level 2017

 PNG Forestry Authority,  Climate Change and Development Authority in PNG

Web-Portal by Climate Change and Development Authority and Forest Authority

 Climate Change and Development Authority in PNG

Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) has been one of the fastest growing economies globally this century with average growth rates above 6%. This rapid growth has been driven primarily by the expansion of foreign investment within the natural gas sector and high prices for PNG’s central exports many of which are transported to rapidly growing Asian economies. This growth has built on a long history of natural resources being at the centre of the PNG economy with exports and employment dominated by mining, natural gas, logging and agriculture.