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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a financial mechanism that provides grant and concessional funds to recipient countries for activities aimed at protecting the global environment. This operational strategy has been developed to guide the preparation of country driven initiatives in the GEF four focal areas: biodiversity, climate change, international waters and ozone layer depletion.

In order to ensure conservation wildlife resources, it is essential to understand and asses the extent to which man uses them for subsistence, social and economic purposes, as well as the value he places upon these uses. Besides food, wildlife and its products are utilised for various other purposes in Papua New Guinea: ornaments, medicines, weapons etc...

A list of wildlife animals and their references found in Papua New Guinea.

From time to time short items appear in newspaper columns and through other news media about rat damage to agricultural crops, stored food and human dwellings.

This report is an assessment of the ecosystem of Goodenough Island with particular emphasis on the status of grassland habitat of the agile wallaby.

The Tonda Wildlife management area covers an area of approximately 5000 s. km, situated at the south-western corner of the Western Province.

The inter-tidal forests and network of water-ways of the PurariKikori deltaic systems support a complex biological community.

Conservation is the rational use of the earth's resources to achieve the highest quality of living for the majority of the people. Mans' activities involve directly or indirectly various degrees of conservation measures.

The dictionary contains a listing of family and generic names of tetrapods of the Papuan region. It serves as a reference for spelling of scientific names and gives guide to the families in which genera are placed in addition to the commonly used vernacular names