Western biologists want half of PNG to be turned into a national park. But talking to the government is not enough people's participation is imperative.
Mining companies, aided by a short sighted bureaucracy, have recklessly plundered Papua New Guinea's vast mineral wealth, transforming its socio economic profile and leaving behind a degraded environment.
MOUNT Kare towers 2,750 metres in the midst of the jagged limestone mountains of the central range. Peter Ryan, author of a book on the Mount Kare gold rush, says the mountain was too high, too wet,
To the Wopkaimin of central Papua New Guinea, Mount Fubilan is a sacred mountain sitting on top of the land of the dead. To exploration geologists in the 1960s, it was a 2,200-metre peak that could
With timber being harvested from Papua New Guinea's tremendous forest wealth at an unsustainable rate, the customary owners of forest land are now asserting themselves and claiming compensation as well as a share of the profits. But an insensitive bureauc
Sukhomajr, a village in Haryana, has come to symbolise how community efforts at natural regeneration can improve both the forests and the people's standard of living.
