News from the Forests of New Guinea
26 Feb 2008
Pulp and palm oil the villains in Sumatra's global climate impact and local elephant losses
Pekanbaru, Sumatra: Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found. » Read more
28 Sep 2007
Local communities celebrate new protected areas in Papua New Guinea
The creation of three new wildlife management areas in Papua New Guinea will protect some of Asia-Pacific’s most threatened and unique wildlife habitats. » Read more
05 Mar 2007
Celebrating crocodiles in Papua New Guinea
A festival in eastern Papua New Guinea pays tribute to crocodiles of the Sepik River, one of the largest unpolluted rivers in the Asia-Pacific region.
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25 Oct 2006
Crafting a Vision for the Future: Protecting New Guinea’s TransFly...
“When I was a little boy, you could walk into the bush about 2km and come back 30 minutes later with something you’d hunted,” Yul explains nostalgically. “But now you have to walk for hours and hours, sometimes even days”. What threats does the TransFly face, and how is WWF working to address these problems? » Read more
25 Oct 2006
Protecting Sacred Lands in the Last Paradise on Earth…
“You dig a big yam up with a stick made out of yuka, it has to be a big one,” explains Abia Bai, a community elder from the Maiyawa tribe, who is sharing with me the secret to a good yam harvest. Find out more about the people of the TransFly, a vast savanna region in Papua that WWF is trying to protect. » Read more
25 Oct 2006
New protected areas for Papua New Guinea
Local communities in Papua New Guinea gathered along the volcanic slopes of Mount Bosavi in the country’s Southern Highlands to celebrate the creation of three new protected areas. » Read more
16 Oct 2006
WWF discovers new species of orchids in Papua New Guinea
A series of expeditions by WWF scientists into previously unexplored areas of tropical rainforest in Papua New Guinea have revealed at least eight new orchid species previously unknown to science. » Read more
28 Sep 2006
Oxley’s skewed agenda won’t help PNG
Renewed allegations from a logging industry spin-doctor that WWF is pursuing a campaign to replace commercial forestry with eco-forestry in PNG are completely baseless and unfounded. » Read more
17 May 2006
A conservation vision for New Guinea's wetlands
Governments, community leaders, scientists and conservation organizations, including WWF, have launched a conservation "vision" to conserve one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest, richest and most pristine wetlands on the island of New Guinea. » Read more
20 Jan 2006
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Essential oils from New Guinea’s forests
New Guinea contains more strange and new and beautiful natural objects than any other part of the globe. Indeed, few places on earth rival the diversity of New Guinea, one of the great natural jewels of our planet. Find out more about a WWF trip to Indonesia's Wasur National Park.
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