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Local children snorkeling in Papua New Guinea. © Vanessa Messmer, PhD

From helping grow Fair Trade cocoa crops to drawing up networks of marine protected areas in the Coral Triangle, the Conservancy is working with the people of Papua New Guinea to build a greener country. Play a role in helping the Conservancy empower local people to design sustainable futures for the lands and waters that surround them.

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Farmers from the Urumarov village hold up the fruits of their labor. © Allison Bleaney

Sweet Success

With help from the Conservancy, the Adelberts Conservation Cooperative Society has rallied local farmers around conservation. Now, they're producing the first fair trade-certified cocoa in the country.
Read about the Climate Challenger! ©Ruth Konia/TNC

A Voyage for Change

Follow the Climate Challenger canoe as it travels around the Pacific connecting communities confronted by a shared enemy: climate change.
Villagers do a traditional singsing welcoming visitors from The Nature Conservancy to the village of Turutapa located in the Adelbert Mountain Range of Papua New Guinea's Madang Province. © Mark Godfrey

Water for Conservation

The Conservancy is helping communities in Papua New Guinea obtain rainwater collection tanks and develop land use and management plans that set aside large areas for conservation.

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© Allison Bleaney/RAFT Fair Trade cocoa has been the source of much celebration in the Adelberts region of Papua New Guinea

Cuckoo for Conservation

Take a close look at Fair Trade cocoa in the Adelberts region of Papua New Guinea.
Forest planner, Suryadi Mentemas tags trees at the number four concession logging area in the Kalimantan region of Borneo, Indonesia where the logging company he works for has been given permit to proceed with reduced impact logging (RIL). © Bridget Besaw

View a slideshow A Life RAFT for Forests

Learn how USAID’s Responsible Asia Forestry and Trade Program is making Asia's timber trade more sustainable at all levels.
freckle-faced blenny in Kimbe Bay, Coral Triangle slideshow © Jeff Yonover

The Coral Triangle

Click on the image above to see some of the spectacular underwater species found in the Coral Triangle.

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Titans of the Coral Sea © Jordan Plotsky

Titans of the Coral Sea

Watch a video to find out more about the Titan people of Pere, Papua New Guinea.

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Lion in Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. © Kenneth K. Coe

Close Encounters with Nature

Whether scary or exciting, nature has a way of sneaking up on you. See stories

Arden O’Connor. © Lajla LeBlanc

Nature Matters

Hear some of nature's success stories and see how nature matters to us all. Watch videos

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Local villager demonstrating the use of a dugout canoe and spear to catch fish in the coastal mangroves near Tarobi village on the Kimbe Bay coast in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. © Mark Godfrey

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