Editing Geography of Papua New Guinea (section)

==Environmental issues==
{{Main|Biodiversity protection efforts in Papua New Guinea}}
The rainforest is subject to [[deforestation]] as a result of growing commercial demand for tropical timber; forest clearance, especially in coastal areas, for plantations; [[pollution]] from mining projects.  If the trend continues, more than half the forest that existed when Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia in 1975 will be gone by 2021.<ref>University of Papua New Guinea [http://gis.mortonblacketer.com.au/upngis/Downloads/State%20of%20Forests%20of%20PNG.pdf The State of the Forests in Papua New Guinea] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719092448/http://gis.mortonblacketer.com.au/upngis/Downloads/State%20of%20Forests%20of%20PNG.pdf |date=2008-07-19 }}</ref>{{Needs update|date=July 2024|reason=2021 is in the past}}

===Environment - international agreements===

====signed, but not ratified====
*Antarctic-Environmental Protocol

====signed and ratified====
*Climate Change-[[Kyoto Protocol]]