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THE FOREST SECTOR, LAND AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN PNG. Papua New Guinea has a land area of some 464,000 square kilometers. Of this, according to the Forest Inventory Mapping System, some 60% (280,000 km 2) of that area was designated as: gross forest area.This area was reduced to an "adjusted forest area" of 266.000 km 2 by excluding small patches of natural or human disturbance
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The Utilization of Papua New Guinea Timbers Tropical forests usually include a large number of timber species. Papua New Guinea is no exception, where a multitude of species make up the lowland rain forest complex. The lowland rain forest system is the major forest type in Papua New Guinea and contributes the major percentage of the commercial ...
Get pricePapua New Guinea Jungles: Must-Know Information and Guide (Updated 2021) Papua New Guinea is the home to one of the many greatest expanses of tropical rainforests. Residing in the area are the world's most traditional forest dwellers, most of which have had little to no contact from the outside world. The island is abundant with resources ...
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The Papua New Guinea Forest Authority (PNGFA) estimates that approximately 80% of the total of the country is covered by natural forests, of which some 60% intact forest. Just over half of this (52%) is considered production forest, while the other half (48%) are for conservation. The forests of PNG are ranked among the world's 10 most ...
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The provinces of Papua and West Papua contain roughly half of Indonesia's remaining tropical forests. Comprised of many remote villages separated by an extreme topography, the land is mostly ...
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The Papua New Guinea Forest Authority (PNGFA) was established in 1993 under the 1991 Forestry Act replacing the former Department of Forest, and unifying all Provincial Forest Divisions and the Forest Industries Council. The PNGFA has 19 provincial offices which include five regional offices. The PNGFA mission statement is to: Promote the ...
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New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, or Nugini, historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island with an area of 785,753 km 2 (303,381 sq mi). Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the 150-kilometre (81-nautical-mile; 93-mile) wide Torres Strait, though both landmasses lie on the same ...
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In addition, the highland tropical forests of Papua New Guinea have helped to advance TNC's research in bioacoustics, where sound recordings of the forest are analyzed to determine animal species diversity. This emerging field shows promise in detecting declines in endangered species population levels — a potential indicator of habitat ...
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No legal requirements for 2 sub-categories. This page provides an overview of the legality risks related to timber produced in Papua New Guinea (PNG). PNG has 33.6 million hectares of forested land, which covers 73% of the country (FAO, 2015). More than 90% of the forested area is primary or naturally regenerated forest, making it one of the ...
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The Oceania nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has approximately 42.4 million hectares of tree cover, which comes to roughly 63% of its land area. An impressive 91% of this area is also still considered primary forest, making it one of the most intact forest ecosystems in the world. PNG in itself contains over 5% of the world's known ...
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The amounts to an average annual deforestation rate of 0.44%. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate of forest change increased by 4.5% to 0.46% per annum. In total, between 1990 and 2005, Papua New Guinea lost 6.6% of its forest cover, or around 2,086,000 hectares. Papua New Guinea lost -3,999,000 hectares—0—of its primary forest cover during ...
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IUCN status: Least Concern. The long-fingered triok is a nocturnal possum found in mountain forests above 1,000 meters (4,000 feet) throughout New Guinea's central ranges and the Huon Peninsula. It uses its long finger to extract insects and small animals from tree bark and decaying wood. Photo: Stephen J Richards.
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West Papua is the little-visited western half of the huge island of New Guinea. It is host to an astonishing degree of biological and ecological richness with habitats ranging from steamy lowland swamp forests to the alpine grassland of the mighty Snow Mountains, the highest peaks between the Himalaya and the Andes.
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The largest company doing illegal logging in PNG is Malaysian-owned Rimbunan Hijau, which also logs in China, Brazil, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and Vanuatu. Forestry experts consider Rimbunan Hijau one of the most damaging and irresponsible global logging companies.
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According to the monitoring website Global Forest Watch, Papua New Guinea's forests covered 93 percent of its land surface in 2010. But the country has seen a 3.7 percent decrease in tree cover ...
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The Papua New Guinea Forest Research Institute (FRI) is charged with, among other things, the responsibility to provide through research, scientific information and basis for the sustainable management of Papua New Guinea's forests. As such the Botanic Gardens falls under Forest Biology program, one of the four research programs of PNGFRI.
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Papua New Guinea Commitments and Challenges . Forest ownership is in the hands of the communities and presided over by the clan Chiefs. However, with economic pressures, the scope for commercial logging and land conversion to agriculture is increasing.. According to PNG's 2020 enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions, by 2030 PNG is committed to reducing annual emissions from ...
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Sep 28, 2021As well as providing a source of food and income for millions of people, PNG's forests are renowned for their biodiversity - home to at least 191 mammal species, 300 reptile species, 197 amphibians, and over 750 species. The forests also sustain complex ecosystems - from the soil, to the watershed to the reef. [3]
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The first field campaign surveying Papua New Guinea's lush primary forests from the coast to clouds has revealed the high mountain tops may house the largest trees recorded globally at such ...
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Papua New Guinea forests and carbon trading. There has been an announcement that carbon trading has commenced in PNG. This has been hailed by Mr Kirk Roberts, head of Nupan (PNG) Trading Co. who is quoted in the PNG Post Courier of 26th January 2010 as saying: "This is a fantastic thing for PNG, who has chosen to take advantage of ...
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Optimal climate for large trees at high elevations drives patterns of biomass in remote forests of Papua New Guinea Glob Chang Biol . 2017 Nov;23(11):4873-4883. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13741.
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Papua New Guinea's forests are protected by laws that appear strong on paper, but fall apart in practice. The Papua New Guinean Forestry Act encompasses almost one hundred pages of detailed law that is rarely enforced. Global Witness has documented logging companies that have broken this law hundreds of times without repercussions.
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APFSOS II: Papua New Guinea 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Papua New Guinea's (PNG) forests and forestry have played an important role in the livelihoods of the people of the country for many years. Forests have provided a source for food, fruits and nuts, building materials, medicinal plants, habitats for refuge and a wealth of other services.
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A small group of committed individuals and organisations have sought to build the capacity of Papua New Guineans to manager their forests for a variety of purposes, including commercial timber production, as a more sustainable, profitable and socially acceptable alternative to them handing over the timber rights through the Forestry Authority ...
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Working closely with the Papua New Guinea Government to develop and trial a national forest protection initiative known as REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation ― the "+" refers to the other benefits of forests). If successful, such a scheme would be transformational and result in large scale forest protection ...
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Publisher. Papua New Guinea Forest Industries Association (Inc) Modified. 11 February 2022. Release Date. 19 July 2021. Identifier. 766646ed-6c57-4c9f-995c-0119822d7e39. Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location.
Get pricePNGFA - Papua New Guinea Forest Authority. Looking for abbreviations of PNGFA? It is Papua New Guinea Forest Authority. Papua New Guinea Forest Authority listed as PNGFA. Papua New Guinea Forest Authority - How is Papua New Guinea Forest Authority abbreviated?
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Papua New Guinea's forests are also a valuable source of export income. Over the past 30 years 25-30% of Papua New Guinea's forests were logged, mainly by international logging companies. Illegal or unregulated logging was common before the Papua New Guinea Forest Authority developed guidelines for sustainable production, logging and ...
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• The Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has played a prominent part in recent negotiations for "rainforest nations" to be compensated for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation or forest degradation (DFD). • A new report "The State of the Forests of Papua New Guinea" claims that rates of DFD in PNG are much higher than have previously reported. It suggests more ...
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But a new online forest portal, PNGi Forests, is changing that. The new portal combines data collected from a number of different sources and dating back to 1993 to shine a light onto Papua New Guineas industrial logging industry. PNGi Forests allows the user to search and filter information on logging companies, their ownership, their logging ...
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In contrast to the Dipterocarp forests of South East Asia, there are few forests in Papua New Guinea dominated by a single genus. Average standing forest volumes of 100 to 130 m 3 /ha
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Although Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a rich and diverse forest cover, there is limited information on processing characteristics for plantations and regrowth forests available. Consequently, the PNG timber processing industry is restricted to a few species, producing low-quality products, which limits opportunities for the processors. Sound knowledge of machining characteristics based on some ...
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Environmental groups say Papua New Guinea's government is sitting back while the country's rainforests are being destroyed. The Pacific nation has just overt...
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Preliminary assessment of carbon in forest soils of Papua New Guinea (PNG) was done for 53 sites. Simple soil-landscape model was constructed to explain how soil carbon relates to landscape position and landform processes. Despite limitations of the soil survey, sufficient data have been obtained to indicate that the amount of carbon in forest soils surveyed so far is related primarily to ...
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Together with the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Oro Province, CIFOR-ICRAF and its private sector facing entity, Resilient Landscapes, are supporting the development of a new 195 million Euro nature-based solutions development project in the Managalas Plateau. The Oro Province is a unique biodiversity hotspot that has the potential to be developed as an integrated landscape level ...
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Forest loss in Papua New Guinea's low altitude forests, which account for around 20 million ha forest cover, has continued at between 3 and 5% loss by area per year since 2010, mostly driven (more than 90%) by log exports to China. This special collection was compiled as part of Papua New Guinea's National Forest Inventory.
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The forests of Papua New Guinea need to be managed sensitively and sustainably based on advanced evidence-based knowledge. The Trees of Papua New Guinea publication provides a comprehensive treatment of 668 species of trees (Volume 1: 257 species; Vol. 2: 246 species; Vol. 3: 165 species) that will assist in the identification of the trees of ...
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The forests of Papua New Guinea are a source of wealth not just for our people, but for all of humanity. Our forests store huge quantities of carbon, provide freshwater and local climate benefits ...
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METHODS. We conducted our study at four tropical forest sites in Papua New Guinea: (1) Wanang 3 (5°13.5′S, 145°04.9′E, 120 m asl), situated within > 10 000 ha of contiguous lowland primary forest in the Wanang Conservation Area; (2) Wanang 1 (5°14.2′S, 145°10.9′E, 125 m asl), a mosaic of primary and secondary lowland rain forest near Wanang 1 village situated on the border of the ...
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Jun 1, 2021An illegally logged tree, felled in the diminishing forests of Papua New Guinea, may well end up becoming floorboards in a Sydney living room, or a bookcase in a home in Seattle.
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