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Paige West, Conservation is our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 320

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Notes

  1. See Footnote 7 on p. 270 for West’s explanation of how the Gimi perceive themselves as “continuing”—if in different ways within their forest environment and therefore, how the conservation science idea of something be “lost” (becoming extinct) is antithetical to their experience.

  2. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/146723/0 Lists Paradisaea raggiana—the Bird of Paradise that is the national emblem of PNG as”‘least concern.” http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5835&m=0 reflects on the Red List rating of “less threatened” for the Princess Stephanie’s Bird of Paradise (the Ribbon-tailed Astrapia—Astrapia mayeri,) the bird Gillison seems to be talking about in one of his interviews with West. Confusingly, this site defines the extensive range associated with the Princess Stephanie as in Western Highlands, rather than the Eastern Highlands and the forests of the CMWMA. There are 42 species of birds of paradise in 17 genera (http://www.earthlife.net/birds/paradisidae.html) and it may be that the ones associated with CMWMA are endangered but it is not easy to access this information through the web, at least. West (p. 270) indicates two species of cassowary are found within the CMWMA but I cannot locate the Latin names of the birds of paradise in the text or appendice. The RCF website http://www.rcf.org.pg/ and their latest report available on it, the 2006 Annual Report from CMWMA does not list the species included in the forests of this region. (http://www.rcf.org.pg/media/documents/annual_report_2006.pdf).

  3. In a 2008 article, West references the world database on protected areas (http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdbpa/ wherein it is estimated that as of 2003, 10% of the planet’s land surface is in protected area management. In 2009 it is possible to visit www.wdpa.org and country by country, protected area by protected area calculate the square kilometers covered but not to easily access a total coverage. The accuracy of such statistics are also an issue reflecting the mapping difficulties as discussed in this text, and in this case confirmed on the CMWMA website itself.

  4. See Pressey (1995).

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Beilin, R. Paige West, Conservation is our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. J Agric Environ Ethics 24, 75–85 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-010-9239-5

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