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379 datasets found for "vocab_regions:"South Pacific""

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Kokoda Initiative

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

The Kokoda Initiative is a partnership between the Government of Papua New Guinea and Australia to sustainably develop and protect the Kokoda Track and the surrounding Owen Stanley...
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Sex affiliation and its implications in Koiari

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

THE present paper discusses a form of social classification which may be referred to provisionally as sex affiliation. The essence of it is that male children are classed with their...
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The impact of hunting on tropical mammal and bird populations

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Hunting is a major driver of biodiversity loss, but a systematic large-scale estimate of hunting-induced defaunation is lacking. We synthesized 176 studies to quantify huntinginduced...
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PhD Thesis on Endemic Birds in Papua New Guinea’s Montane Forests: Human Use and Conservation.

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Escalating anthropogenic impacts on tropical biodiversity have increased the vulnerability of endemic species. Selective harvesting of species is one of the major threats to birds and...
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Wild meat: the bigger picture

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Massive overhunting of wildlife for meat across the humid tropics is now causing local extinctions of numerous species. Rural people often rely heavily on wild meat, but, in many areas,...
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A checklist of wild plants in South Simbu

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

This volume reports the results of studies carried out in the Southern half of the Simbu Province of Papua New Guinea (Fig. 1.0 by the Simbu Land Use Project (SLUP) between 1980 and 1982.
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THE EXPORT AND RE-EXPORT OF CITES-LISTED BIRDS FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Large numbers of birds, including more than 68 000 wild-caught and reportedly captive-bred CITES-listed individuals, were imported from the Solomon Islands in the 2000s. The vast majority...
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Framework for assessing compensation for the wrongful loss of customary land in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

This is an economic evaluation of the compensation to which Papua New Guinea’s customary landholders - wrongly dispossessed through Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL) - might be...
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Papua New Guinea and Culture

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

A four-week mission was undertaken in Papua New Guinea to evaluate the work of the National Cultural Council and the Provincial Cultural Centres and the relationships between them, and to...
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STATE OF SAFEGUARDING PNG’S INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Our cultures and traditions are deeply entrenched in every Papua New Guinean, in our families, our homes and basically in our way of life. Our cultures and traditions are also preserved...
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Talking it Through Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

The belief that illness, death and misfortune of all sorts is frequently caused by the deliberate interventions of individuals with special powers or magical knowledge is pervasive...
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MANGROVE REHABILITATION FOR SUSTAINABLY-MANAGED HEALTHY FORESTS (MARSH): FINAL REPORT

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

The project Mangrove Rehabilitation for Sustainably Managed Healthy Forests (MARSH) commenced on October 1st 2012 and ended on September 30th 2015. The project was initially supposed to...
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Empowering the Poor in a Changing Climate Experiences from UNDP Supported Initiatives on Adaptation

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

UNDP has been working during the last decade to support countries to transition to green, inclusive, climate-resilient development paths. More than US$790 million in grant financing from...
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Climate change in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

This chapter provides a brief description of Papua New Guinea, its past and present climate as well as projections for the future. The climate observation network and the availability of...
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PNG prehistory, history and archaeology

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Lecture Notes
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Prehistoric stone artefacts from Enga and the implication of links between the highlands, lowlands and islands for early agriculture in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Two of the unanswered questions of Papua New Guinea prehistory are: (1) whether agriculture was present in the mid-Holocene not only in the highlands but also in the lowlands and Bismarck...
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New Guinea stone age trade

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the region south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia - lands that...
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Peat in the mountains of New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Peatlands are common in montane areas above 1,000 m in New Guinea and become extensive above 3,000 m in the subalpine zone. In the montane mires, swamp forests and grass or sedge fens...
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Language

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

How can linguistics contribute to our knowledge about human dispersals in the distant past? We will consider the case of New Guinea and surrounding islands, one of the most linguistically...
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Lapita sites in the Central Province of mainland Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

For over forty years, archaeologists working along Papua New Guinea’s southern coastline have sought evidence for early ceramics and its relationship with Lapita wares of Island...