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Conservation and Management of Tropical Rain-forest: A Dilemma of Development in Papua New Guinea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

David Lamb
David Lamb
Affiliation:
Forest Management Research Branch, Office of Forests, P.O. Box 5055, Boroko, Papua New Guinea.
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Large areas of Papua New Guinea are covered by tropical rain-forest, but national and local pressures for development are causing increasing areas to be cleared for agriculture or logged for timber. Despite concern by conservation-minded land managers, a number of constraints make planning for the rational use of these resources rather difficult.

The problems encountered are mainly sociological rather than ecological. Thus while landowners are willing or eager to sell the rights to harvest the timber on their land, they are unwilling to commit the land to any long-term land-use, whether this be as managed forest, national park, or wildlife reserve. The problem is compounded by the complicated system of land tenure and the fact that several language-groups may commonly be found within even a small area.

The Gogol Timber Project at Madang illustrates some of these difficulties and the attempts that are being made to overcome them.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , Summer 1977 , pp. 121 - 129
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1977

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