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The Papua New Guinea has a country owns virginity forest needed protect from destruction, which the government of PNG need to work with stakeholders to maintain these forest which I am interested to learn and know more about all ...

The gold has been dug out since I was a child and the company doesn't pay the payment for the environment damage. My appeal to PJV and Barrick to pay 10 million for this season of mining. I'm in POM. Please honour my word and take action hurry before such illegal happens again.

Keep me in your list please.

Thanks Jetta.

I'm interested and register the carbon trade in highland region.

Thank you. I have phot of Mane when he was in Standard 3 and doing some weekend gardening for me with my 3 year old daughter. She is now 54!!

Thank you. I have phot of Mane when he was in Standard 3 and doing some weekend gardening for me with my 3 year old daughter. She is now 54!!

I have read the comments in relation to land reform with interest. Personally, I believe the registration of customary land by government and leaseback would rather than a panacea for all evils, be an unmitigated disaster for PNG. Land is the basis of Melanesian culture. Customary land supports every nine out of ten people in PNG - probably nine and three-quarters if the truth be known. Given its importance for food production and identity, the absence of what you might call a national unifying culture and the propensity for corruption, I shudder to think what would happen if land use was placed in the hands of bureaucrats. Knowing how important land is the country would simply fracture into multiple ungovernable pieces overnight. I take the point that the existing system is not conducive to the creation investment, business and taxation as we know it. But then PNG is not a reflection of the western economic world view. And in light of what is happening globally I would say they are all the better off for it. PNG should play to its strengthens, and a version of Fiji or Hawaii is not one of them. Heaven forbid that ever becomes their fate. While it is clear that the present situation is not necessarily making the best use of land resources, I sheet that squarely back to successive governments that have demonstrated a dearth of ideas in favour of a quick buck. Again, compelling evidence that land reform made in their image would be disastrous. Instead, I can envisage a nation of small producers using their customary land to produce all manner of food and other items that are fed into a purpose-built collection and value adding sector. I offer North Fly Rubber and Niugini Fruit Company as examples. May not sound very inviting for large agribusiness to invest in. But then look again at what agribusiness has done for local people throughout the developing economies, particularly on the continent of Africa and you may have reason to reconsider that pathway as well.

Thank you for your clarification, it is better and prior to understand in order to refrain as early as possible.

Thanks for the clear points above.

Outstanding. Structured well.

It is clear from various comments receive that some folks are still hoping to gain some benefit from voluntary forest carbon schemes while others are concerned about the risk of being ripped off. I have not yet seen any evidence to suggest that the risk has been reduced since we published our paper, but maybe the Climate Change and Development Authority will get its act together...