A Forest the Size of Rhode Island in PNG

The enormous Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA) covers 2600 square kilometers, an area about the size of Rhode Island. The site spans a wide range of elevations (150-2100 meters) that contains a full range of the biodiversity of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Primary forest blankets the lower elevations, while alpine scrub and grasslands occur up higher. Many of the animals who live here are unique to PNG. The area is home to 220 bird species of which 49 are endemic and 84 mammal species, of which 15 are endemic. Although the WMA currently has a low population density, a number of threats are looming in the near future including industrial logging, mining and oil drilling.

So what's being done about these problems?

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