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Group of about 20 people wearing blue rain ponchos, standing/sitting in front of ranger station.
Ranger training attendees in front of the Swire Research Station.
© Daniel Solomon Okena

Capacity Building for Rangers and Conservationists in Papua New Guinea

Grantee Name: New Guinea Binatang Research Center

Hotspot
East Melanesian Islands
Location
Papua New Guinea
Amount
$138,917
Dates
May 2020 – Dec 2021
Keywords
Awareness, Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Education, Ethnobotany, Forestry, Habitat conservation and management, Indigenous People, Logging, Protected Areas

Train 20 rangers and conservation professionals from priority sites in the East Melanesian Islands Hotspot in tropical ecology and conservation at the New Guinea Binatang Research Centre and in the Wanang Conservation Area.

Strategic Direction :

4 Increase local, national and regional capacity to conserve biodiversity through catalyzing civil society partnerships

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