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?
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.
Deep in the perfumed forests of Papua New Guinea
A sharp knocking sound interrupts the busy chirrups, trills and cackles of a million insects and birds deep in the steamy, dense tropical rainforest. The disturbance comes not from a newly-discovered woodpecker, but from a machete being brought down on a tree. Find out more about WWF's work on sustainable forest practices in Papua New Guinea.
