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REMARKABLE is the only way to describe Papua New Guinea. One half of an island shared with Indonesia, a hop and a skip from Australia, and almost unknown to the rest of the world. Yet it contains some of the planet’s most extraordinary biodiversity, from the only known poisonous birds, the world’s largest butterfly, longest lizard, the Pacific’s largest area of mangrove forest, coral reef, seagrass beds and the third largest area of surviving tropical rainforest beyond the Amazon and Congo.The list is almost endless and there is more to be found: More than 1,060 new species were discovered between 1998 and 2008. Put in perspective, New Guinea’s tally of terrestrial vertebrates exceeds Borneo’s by more than two and a half times! On top of which, Papua New Guinea is sat on the Equator and is blessed with up to 9m of rainfall a year, fecund soils and is home to valuable minerals like gold, oil, nickel and silver. The 7m population, made up of thousands of clans and speaking more than 1,000 languages is almost entirely self-sufficient in food. The opportunity for WWF is to work with the almost incalculable biodiversity and the communities who live amongst it to develop sustainable livelihoods, land-use planning, develop resiliance to climate change and promote renewables to ensure they avoid the mistakes made by industrialised nations in the past. WWF has been working in Papua New Guinea since 1995 and has had a substantial influence on conservation work in the country. The PNG Country Office is based in Port Moresby with a project office in Madang. Its focal areas are the Kikori River Basin, on the Great Papua Plateau and Madang Coastal Communities, on the Bismark Sea and comes under the umbrella of WWF’s Pacific Programme Office.