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A study of biodiversity identified a further 398 areas as candidates for conservation. [3] This would increase the total protected areas to 16.8% of the total country area. Included in the PNG protected area list, but not formally recognized by International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) is the terrestrial ...
Its objectives, powers and authority are set out in the establishing Act, the Conservation and Environment Protection Authority Act 2014. [16] The act is expressed to bind the State of PNG (s.3). The PNG government's efforts to conserve biodiversity are supported by international environmental conservation Non-governmental organizations (NGOs ...
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. . Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmenta
Environmental leaders from 185 countries gathered in Vancouver, Canada, on Thursday to launch a fund to support global conservation, and the United Nations called for contributions to help meet ...
Satellite images exemplify massive loss of forest cover in New Ireland between 1989 (bottom) and 2000 (top). Deforestation in Papua New Guinea has been extensive and in recent decades from 2001 to 2020, Papua New Guinea (PNG) lost 1.57Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 3.7% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 1.15Gt of CO₂e emissions.
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30 by 30 is the third of 23 global biodiversity targets for 2030 in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in December 2022: . Ensure and enable that by 2030 at least 30 per cent of terrestrial, inland water, and of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and ...