It's PNG Expect the Unexpected - Papua New Guinea is truly one of the last frontiers, the country is a wild & adventurous place that offers some tremendous scuba diving, combined with many unique and fascinating things to see above the water. One of the world’s most heterogeneous countries, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a population of around 6.5 million people, but over 850 languages and nearly 1000 traditional societies & ethnic indigenous groups. X-Ray magazine recently published an extensive section on scuba diving in Papua New Guinea featuring articles on Tufi, Milne Bay, New Ireland and New Britain and asked me to write an …
Archives for December 2012
Kimbe Bay Conservation – Part 2
Conserving Kimbe Bay - what would you do if one day you realized that the side-effects of the industry you helped to introduce were starting to degrade the pristine environment of your backyard - turn a blind eye... hug a tree perhaps? Well, if you are anything like Max and Cecilie Benjamin, you fight long and hard to protect it and establish a framework that will empower the local population to take ownership of the process. Easier said than done, particularly in that complex equation that is Papua New Guinea... But Mahonia Na Dari, next door to Walindi Plantation Dive Resort, is living proof that it can be done and a testament to …