Abstract
The island of New Guinea contains some of the most extensive tracts of tropical rainforest in the world. Like Am-azonia, the Congo Basin and Borneo, the tropical rainforests on New Guinea are today being heavily disturbed, degraded and destroyed by a combination of competing land uses, primarily subsistence and commercial agriculture, oil palm arboriculture and logging (Mack, 2014; Bryan, 2015; also see Tollefson, 2008; Ghazoul and Sheil, 2010). Yet, present-day human impacts on tropical rainforests need to be evaluated against long-term temporal trajectories during which people have acculturated, and effectively domesticated, these forest landscapes.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Exploring Frameworks for Tropical Forest Conservation |
| Editors | UNESCO |
| Place of Publication | Mexico |
| Publisher | UNESCO Publishing |
| Pages | 54-91pp |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-607-7579-79-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |