Melanesian Geo

Melanesian Geo 'Melanesian Geo' magazine is a grassroots initiative focused at raising environmental awareness in Melanesia.

Unchecked mining by former logging company turned miner desimates environment and peoples lives on Choiseul Island. 🇸🇧 h...
06/10/2025

Unchecked mining by former logging company turned miner desimates environment and peoples lives on Choiseul Island. 🇸🇧 has some of the worst deforestation rates and practices in the world. Now unregulated mining has added another layer of destruction to the environment, impacting peoples lives.

WAN KANTRI: THE NEXT 50 YEARS
22/09/2025

WAN KANTRI: THE NEXT 50 YEARS

Wan Kantri: The Next 50 Years documentary celebrates 50 years of Papua New Guinea’s independence and future. Journey through a country of rich contrasts thro...

The race is on to find the minerals we need to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, and vast reserves of those...
15/09/2025

The race is on to find the minerals we need to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, and vast reserves of those minerals lie untouched at the bottom of the Pacific.

But, while mining them could fuel our green future, scientists warn it risks catastrophic damage to our oceans.

Enter Australian entrepreneur Gerard Barron, the founder and CEO of The Metals Company.

He wants to extract potato-sized balls called polymetallic nodules from the seabed and believes they could be worth trillions of dollars.

His project has gained political momentum after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order supporting seabed mining, even in international waters.

The United Nations affiliated agency responsible for regulating the exploitation of the world’s deep-sea resources says mining under US permits would be unlawful and undermines global cooperation.

With no clear rules in place, and the stakes higher than ever, the future of deep-sea mining is now a global flashpoint.

Reporter Mark Willacy travels from Jamaica to Tonga to Washington D.C. to investigate the battle over who controls the ocean, who profits from its resources, and what the world could stand to lose.

Race to the Bottom is a stunning film that reveals a growing divide between political ambition, corporate interests and environmental responsibility.

The race is on to find the minerals we need to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, and vast reserves of those minerals lie untouched at the bottom...

09/09/2025

The Wondiwoi tree kangaroo, an ultra-rare species last recorded in 1928, has been rediscovered in New Guinea after 90 years. Its reappearance marks an extraordinary moment for conservation and offers new hope for protecting endangered wildlife.

09/09/2025
09/09/2025

In the pantheon of endangered ecosystems, tropical dry forests are seldom granted a leading role. They lack the lush mystique of rainforests and the climatic extremes of deserts. Yet these vanishing woodlands, which once sprawled across continents, are critical to the survival of countless species ....

Foxes and cats responsible for massive extinctions.
09/09/2025

Foxes and cats responsible for massive extinctions.

Traces of the animal were found in a damp environment where thousands of bones litter the ground.

06/09/2025

For decades, scientists feared that Zaglossus attenboroughi, also known as Sir David’s long-beaked echidna, had vanished forever. The species, named after British naturalist Sir David Attenborough, was last scientifically documented in 1961. Since then, no confirmed sightings had been recorded, so many believed it was extinct.

That changed in late 2023, when researchers working in the remote Cyclops Mountains of Papua, Indonesia, set up camera traps to search for rare wildlife. To their surprise, one of the cameras captured clear footage of a living Zaglossus attenboroughi moving through the dense forest. It was the first confirmed sighting in more than 60 years.

Echidnas are unusual mammals called monotremes, a tiny group that also includes the platypus. Unlike most mammals, they lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Long-beaked echidnas, found only in New Guinea, are larger than their Australian relatives and use their long snouts and strong claws to dig for worms and insects. Zaglossus attenboroughi is the smallest and rarest of the long-beaked echidnas and is listed as critically endangered because of hunting and habitat loss.

The rediscovery of this species gives scientists and conservationists new hope. Papua’s forests remain some of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, and protecting them could safeguard not just this unusual echidna but many other species that may still be hidden in the wild.

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The publication concept of Melanesian Geo: journal of society and the environment in Melanesia was developed and initiated by Patrick Pikach from Solomon Islands, with the support of two postgraduate students at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji in 2005. The initial purpose of this journal was to draw attention to the rich and distinct biodiversity of Melanesia which each year is being increasingly threatened by a number of factors both natural and man made. Issues of concern in Melanesia are unsustainable development, commercialisation and exploitation of wildlife species, and resource exploitation such as mining and logging, etc. As a team of Melanesian environment students at the time we perceived that a journal that was both illustrative and that provided an easy narration of these issues was more fitting for our grassroots people in the Melanesian region to comprehend and empathise with. And so we endeavoured to fill this niche between the science and the mainstream media by simplifying the data without loosing or “watering down” the emphasis of each issue or story. In addition it is our purpose to try and making the pages more illustrative with colourful pictures of Melanesia. Furthermore, to be relevant to the people of Melanesia and to the context of our contemporary society, we are taking a broader approach to the initial environmental focus of this magazine and will be publishing societal issues that affect our people.

The Purpose of this publication is

• To provide an alternative reader friendly journal for local writers, researchers, and civil society groups throughout Melanesian to contribute to.

• To raise awareness (to the general public, in particular grassroots resource owners, education institutions, civil society groups, legislators, politicians and relevant stake holders) of contemporary environmental issues that impact the Melanesian environment and its people.