State of the coral reefs of Papua New Guinea : coral triangle marine resources: their status, economies, and management
Biodiversity Conservation
Available Online
National CTI Coordinating Committee of Papua New Guinea
2012
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the largest Pacific Island country in total land area (some 460,000 square kilometers (sq km) and second in respect to ocean area (some 3 million sq km within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). PNGs population of over some 6 million people is sparsely distributed: population density strands at about 9 people per sq km which is the lowest in the south pacific region