🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinean schoolkids-turned-rangers from seven tribes now guard the pig-nosed turtles their communities once hunted.

Papua New Guinea's 'Guardian of the Sea' has spent nearly three decades teaching Kimbe Bay communities to run their own no-take marine reserves in the heart of the Coral Triangle.

Papua New Guinea granted the world's first deep-sea mining licence in its own Bismarck Sea; the coastal clans who fish those waters spent eight years making the project unfinanceable.

In Papua New Guinea's remote Torricelli Mountains, a community-run alliance turned a hunting moratorium into a tripling of the critically endangered tenkile tree kangaroo.

Papua New Guinea's first conservation area protects a cloud-forested mountain range as the last stronghold of the endangered Matschie's tree kangaroo.

Only a handful of industrial mines on Earth still tip their tailings straight into a river. Three of them are in Papua New Guinea, and the women downstream named theirs the Red River.