New Guinea Rainforest
The third-largest rainforest on Earth.
The rainforest in New Guinea boasts monumental Earth-cooling potential – our work here aims to keep it that way.
Stretching 73 million hectares, the New Guinea rainforest is incredibly biodiverse, resource-rich and extremely valuable. Valuable to the people that call it home, to exploitative industries and in the fight against the climate crisis.
This rainforest stores around 6.9 billion tonnes of carbon and counting. Crucially, it is still a carbon sink (it captures and stores more carbon than it emits) but it needs protection.
Mining, logging and industrial farming is increasing in The New Guinea. The climate breakdown effects that come with this threatens the health of rainforest, the lives of the people that live there and the processes that balance the climate
Papua New Guinea Facts
In order to keep the New Guinea forest standing, we must come together and support the local communities who have managed it for centuries.
7% of the world’s species live here
This 7% of global species live on an island that covers just 1% of the land’s surface.
Home to the critically endangered
The cuscus, the singing dog, bats, echidnas and beautiful birds of paradise and even the world’s tiniest frog.
Remote rainforest communities
Schools and health centres can be multiple days of travel away, with access dependent on whether heavy rain has broken river banks.
Extreme weather is rising
Inland flooding, landslides, droughts and wildfires – all made worse by deforestation.
Where we work in Papua New Guinea
We work alongside five communities in the Milne Bay Province.
Rainforest Stories
News from Papua New Guinea; from the canopy to the forest floor.
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