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Forest Protection Portal includes news and cyberactivities.
Papua New Guinea provides news and info on PNG
People First Network, the Solomon Islands Development Administration and Participatory Planning Programme website
Papua New Guinea forests and non-government sites
Palm Oil Action is concerned about oil palm plantation development and deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.
The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum promotes integrated rural community development and sustainable resource use through a viable and sustainable eco-forestry industry. Greenpeace is a member.
ATprojects is a Goroka-based NGO which works with NGOs, and the provincial government in the Eastern Highlands Province of PNG.
FSPI (the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International) is a network of South Pacific island NGOs and overseas affiliates.
Mahonia na Dari ("Guardians of the Sea" in the local Talasea language) has been working to protect PNG's abundant biodiversity by promoting the sustainable development of its biological and cultural resources.
New Guinea Binatang Research Center is devoted to promoting biological education, research and conservation of biodiversity in PNG.
Partners with Melanesians is exploring sustainable non-timber forest products as a basis for economic development.
Village Development Trust (VDT) is an indigenous NGO that has become recognised as a leader in the fields of eco-forestry and conservation.
Ecologically sustainable timber and timber alternatives
Forest Stewardship Council FSC is an independent, non-governmental, not for profit organization established to promote the responsible management of the world’s forests.
Forest Certification Resource Center promotes forest certification as a tool to conserve, protect and restore the world's forests. You can search for FSC certified products globally.
Pacific Green International converts (senile) coconut palms into furniture and building materials, equal to or better than conventional timber product.
Australian forest sites
International forest sites
Greenpeace International's Ancient Forest Campaign
America's heritage forest campaign
PNG media links
The National, an online newspaper owned by Malaysian logging giant, Rimbunan Hijau
Post Courier, Murdoch-owned daily newspaper
Pacific environmental sites
PNG sites of interest
Carving out: Development in the Pacific - a radio and web series
Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry deals with forests issues in the context of broader economic developments.
PNG Transparency International
Australian aid sites
Australian Council for International Development works on Australian aid to PNG and Solomon Islands
International environmental sites
Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network
Logging, timber and palm oil plantation companies
WTK, PNG logging and palm oil plantation company
Land & General, which has logging rights to 195,000 hectares of timber concessions in Papua New Guinea
