Biodiversity in PNG

This blog is created for every naturalists, biologists, researchers and anybody that think we should protect our terrestrial and marine environment, before we deplete and extinct some of the rare organisms even before they are identified and studied. Needless to say but sadly it is happening as population and development progressing concurrently at a faster rate.

Papua New Guinea together with the West Papuan Province of Indonesia make up a major tropical wilderness area that still contains 5% of the original and untouched tropical high-biodiversity terrestrial ecosystems. PNG in itself contains over 5% of the worlds biodiversity in less than 1% of the world's total land area. The flora of New Guinea is unique because it has two sources of origin. Papua New Guinea has a lot of local endemic species. The endemicity is a result of mountainous isolation, topographic and soil habitat heterogeneity, high forest disturbance rates and abundant seasonal rainfall year-round. PNG boasts some 15-21,000 higher plants, 3,000 species of orchids, 800 species of coral, 600 species of fish, 250 species of mammals and 760 species of birds and 8 species of, out of which 84 genera of animals are endemic. Ecosystems range from lowland forests to Montana forests, alpine flora down to coastal areas, which contains some of the most extensive pristine mangrove areas in the world. Much of this biodiversity has remained intact for thousands of years because the ruggedness of the terrain made the interior lands inaccessible; furthermore low population density and restrictions on the effectiveness of traditional tools ensured that these biodiversity was never over-exploited.
Today, traditional style of use in biodiversity has forgone and with the use of modern technology, the rate of biodiversity disappearance is inevitable.