. Carbon and biodiversity. A demonstration atlas. Carbon and biodiversity Country profile Papua New Guinea i o O. o Cb o (!) A o, o o o 148 30' Carbon tonnes/ha Low (0-313) Medium 1313-362) High [362-798) High biodiversity (>3 global priorities) • AZEs [ | National protected areas 0 50 100 150 200 250 153° —«=—=^— km Papua New Guinea [PNG), a group of islands between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, covers a land area of 463,000 km2, including the largest tract of primary tropical forest remaining in the Asia-Pacific region; the third largest in the world. Reflecting this forest r
. Carbon and biodiversity. A demonstration atlas. Carbon and biodiversity Country profile Papua New Guinea i o O. o Cb o (!) A o, o o o 148 30' Carbon tonnes/ha Low (0-313) Medium 1313-362) High [362-798) High biodiversity (>3 global priorities) • AZEs [ | National protected areas 0 50 100 150 200 250 153° —«=—=^— km Papua New Guinea [PNG), a group of islands between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, covers a land area of 463,000 km2, including the largest tract of primary tropical forest remaining in the Asia-Pacific region; the third largest in the world. Reflecting this forest richness, the terrestrial ecosystems contain 16 GtC. The highest carbon densities, shown in dark brown on the map, are found in the mountains and coastal swamps, where high carbon contents in organic soils combine with large amounts of biomass carbon in high stature forests. PNG has a high level of species richness, with a range of habitats including tropical heaths and grasslands, cloud forests, savannas, mangroves and swamp forest. The high biodiversity areas, shown in green, are areas in which four or more global biodiversity priority areas overlap (as in the regional maps). AZE sites, the last refuges for endangered species, are shown in purple. It can be seen that the centre of the country, which is high in biodiversity, also contains large areas of high carbon stock. Protected areas, outlined in orange, overlap only a small proportion of the highest carbon areas. The diagram (below] illustrates some of the kinds of data that can be drawn from a spatial overlay of carbon and biodiversity with protected areas. It can be seen that protected areas contain 14 per cent of the carbon stock within high carbon land, and \U per cent of the carbon in high biodiversity land. Of the total carbon stock in land that is high in both carbon and biodiversity, 17 per cent lies within protected areas. Carbon in protected areas 100 - 75 - ^50 - 25 — lGtc High carbon l
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