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 ...

Papua New Guinea is the second largest island in the world. It is inhabited by diverse tribes that depend on nature to provide them with food and medicine. In ecological terms, the island has a ...

Overall Papua New Guinea’s primary forest cover fell from 33.23 million hectares to 25.33 million hectares during the period. 2.92 million hectares of forest were degraded by logging.

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

Papua New Guinea intends to nearly double its existing network of roads between now and 2022. A new study raises concerns about the impacts of building these roads through tropical forest ...

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 ...