Papua New Guinea - Fern

The international community must be challenged to finance preservation and conservation of the
majority of PNG’s vast and globally significant rainforest expanses. A visionary and ambitious
program of payments from over-developed countries to Papua New Guinea – to end commercial
logging and develop small scale eco-forestry and protected areas as an effective and
comprehensive biodiversity and rainforest conservation strategy – is required. Over-developed
countries must pay for the benefits - in terms of biodiversity and global ecosystem processes -
provided by Papua New Guinea’s intact rainforests. Anything less is unacceptable and dooms
PNG’s biodiversity to oblivion.
For more information please see the Forest Conservation Portal at http://forests.org/ and the
Papua New Guinea Rainforest Conservation Portal at http://www.pngweb.com/ . A special
thanks to the PNG Eco-Forestry Forum (http://www.ecoforestry.org.pg/) and PNG Forest Watch
for their work and constant stream of quality information that has assisted in the writing of this
report.
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