SYDNEY — Papua New Guinea will "immediately" lift a ban on forest carbon credit schemes, the Pacific nation's climate minister told AFP on Thursday, opening up its vast wilderness to offset global ...

Community advocacy group ACT NOW says the PNG prime minister's promise to stop issuing new forestry licences will do nothing ...

Papua New Guinea's prime minister promised Tuesday to return to UN climate summits after boycotting this year's talks, but called for safeguarding forests to be a bigger priority.

Scientists have discovered a new snake species following an encounter with a large black-eyed creature found moving around a mining site on a small island in Papua New Guinea. The atra tree snake ...

The Prime Minister’s promise to stop issuing new forestry licences will do nothing to prevent illegal logging from destroying ...

Ghost roads' are increasingly damaging the pristine rainforest in Papua New Guinea, affecting the ecosystem tree by tree. However, the country is actively working to protect the world's third-largest ...

Papua New Guinea will "immediately" lift a ban on forest carbon credit schemes, the Pacific nation's climate minister told AFP on Thursday, opening up its vast wilderness to offset global emissions.

Papua New Guinea’s voluntary scheme falls under an international framework known as REDD, or reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.