Papua New Guinea

Oceania · Melanesia

3 projects · 3 organizations

Piku Biodiversity Network

Piku Biodiversity Network: Papua New Guinea's Kikori Turtle Rangers

Wildlife

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

10rangersRangers who have stayed involved since childhood

7tribesIndigenous tribes partnered with in Kikori region

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Tenkile Conservation Alliance

Tenkile Conservation Alliance: Saving Papua New Guinea's Rarest Tree Kangaroo

Wildlife

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.

307individualsTenkile tree kangaroo population (up from ~100 in 1996)

50villagesVillages engaged in conservation area

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