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Coral Triangle Initiative
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
The Economics of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Coral Triangle (EFACT) is the first report of its kind that consolidates primary and secondary information on fisheries and aquaculture...
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Coral Triangle Initiative
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
The Economics of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Coral Triangle (EFACT) is the first report of its kind that consolidates primary and secondary information on fisheries and aquaculture...
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This technical note is intended to support climate risk assessment (CRA) experts, in particular, those undertaking the early stages of project development. Time and resources could be saved by attaching this document to terms of reference issued to CRA co
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
This technical note is intended to support climate risk assessment (CRA) experts, in particular, those undertaking the early stages of project development. Time and resources could be...
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ADB
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
The gross domestic product (GDP) of Papua New Guinea (PNG) grew at an annual average rate of nearly 7% between 2007 and 2010, and is expected to perform even better in 2011. Moreover, the...
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PNG: Multi-tranche Financing Facility for the Sustainable Highlands Highway Investment Program
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
The proposed Sustainable Highlands Highway Infrastructure Program (SHHIP) is envisaged as a ten- year, multi-partner, multi-tranche financing facility aiming to restore and upgrade the...
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Kokoda Initiative
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
The Kokoda Initiative is a partnership between the Government of Papua New Guinea and Australia to sustainably develop and protect the Kokoda Track and the surrounding Owen Stanley...
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Sex affiliation and its implications in Koiari
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
THE present paper discusses a form of social classification which may be referred to provisionally as sex affiliation. The essence of it is that male children are classed with their...
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The impact of hunting on tropical mammal and bird populations
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
Hunting is a major driver of biodiversity loss, but a systematic large-scale estimate of hunting-induced defaunation is lacking. We synthesized 176 studies to quantify huntinginduced...
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PhD Thesis on Endemic Birds in Papua New Guinea’s Montane Forests: Human Use and Conservation.
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
Escalating anthropogenic impacts on tropical biodiversity have increased the vulnerability of endemic species. Selective harvesting of species is one of the major threats to birds and...
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Wild meat: the bigger picture
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
Massive overhunting of wildlife for meat across the humid tropics is now causing local extinctions of numerous species. Rural people often rely heavily on wild meat, but, in many areas,...
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A checklist of wild plants in South Simbu
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
This volume reports the results of studies carried out in the Southern half of the Simbu Province of Papua New Guinea (Fig. 1.0 by the Simbu Land Use Project (SLUP) between 1980 and 1982.
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THE EXPORT AND RE-EXPORT OF CITES-LISTED BIRDS FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
Large numbers of birds, including more than 68 000 wild-caught and reportedly captive-bred CITES-listed individuals, were imported from the Solomon Islands in the 2000s. The vast majority...
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Framework for assessing compensation for the wrongful loss of customary land in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
This is an economic evaluation of the compensation to which Papua New Guinea’s customary landholders - wrongly dispossessed through Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL) - might be...
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MANGROVE REHABILITATION FOR SUSTAINABLY-MANAGED HEALTHY FORESTS (MARSH): FINAL REPORT
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
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...
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Empowering the Poor in a Changing Climate Experiences from UNDP Supported Initiatives on Adaptation
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
UNDP has been working during the last decade to support countries to transition to green, inclusive, climate-resilient development paths. More than US$790 million in grant financing from...
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Climate change in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
This chapter provides a brief description of Papua New Guinea, its past and present climate as well as projections for the future. The climate observation network and the availability of...
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Prehistoric stone artefacts from Enga and the implication of links between the highlands, lowlands and islands for early agriculture in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
Two of the unanswered questions of Papua New Guinea prehistory are: (1) whether agriculture was present in the mid-Holocene not only in the highlands but also in the lowlands and Bismarck...
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Peat in the mountains of New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
Peatlands are common in montane areas above 1,000 m in New Guinea and become extensive above 3,000 m in the subalpine zone. In the montane mires, swamp forests and grass or sedge fens...
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Karawari caves Precinct
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
Midway up the slopes of the Andogoro, Moirutapa, and Kundiman mountains that rise up from the surrounding floodplains and separate East Sepik Province from Enga and Western Highlands...
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Coupled climate and sea-level changes deduced from Huon Peninsula coral terraces of the last ice age
Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications
Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, is a tectonically unstable, uplifting shoreline ringed by emergent coral terraces. The terraces were formed during episodes of rapid sea-level rise when...