Local boys gather in front of a small mangrove-associated outcropping along the coast of Papua New Guinea. Coastal ecosystems here rely on a community-based system of conservation and protection.
New Guinea is home to some of the best-preserved ecosystems on the planet, including coastal mangroves ... Orchids accounted for 20% of the flora in Papua New Guinea and 17% of Indonesian New ...
Geographic location: Indonesia; Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands (Western Indo-Pacific ... a variety of ecosystems that include coastal lowland and swamp forests, mangroves, tidal estuaries, deltas, ...