For the past five years, Glen Barry, currently the Director of
Ecological Enterprises, has been gathering and disseminating
information concerning Papua New Guinea's rainforests,
biodiversity and indigenous environmental actions. This was done
under a number of organizational affiliations.
These archives are now available through the internet on an the
University of Wisconsin, Institute of Environmental Studies'
anonymous FTP server (address is gaia1.ies.wisc.edu). To access,
interested folks need to have a direct internet connection or
slip/ppp capability, in order to be able to run FTP and Telnet.
To access any of the hundreds of informational pieces available,
all one must do at a dos prompt is type (or click on necessary
icons in Macintosh or Windows FTP programs):
FTP GAIA1.IES.WISC.EDU
For login, reply "anonymous", then giving your email address as
the password. Change to the directory "pngfor" and read the
readme1.txt for more information on how the service works and how
data is presented.
As of 11/5/94, about 25% of the archives is already loaded on
Gaia1. These tend to be the best stories we have; covering the
following topics:
1. Barnett Inquiry/Diro resignation
2. What is Ecological Enterprises
3. The Island Provinces/including New Britain, Manus and New Ireland
4. Legislation/with subdirectories on the new forest act and the
export ban movement
5. Madang Province information
6. Greenfire Landowner Awareness Patrols
7. Rimbunan Hijau Background Information
8. South Pacific Region rainforest information
9. Sustainable forestry in PNG
10. Top Ten PNG stories over the years
11. Timber Supply Areas
Within weeks, the following directories will be available:
12. Gogol/Naru landowner struggle
13. The highlands environmental information
14. International NGO activity in country
15. Japan's role in PNG deforestation
16. Josephstaal (Madang) Timber Area--a Case Study in Corruption
17. Malaysia's role in PNG deforestation
18. Tim Neville's progressive tenure as Forest Minister
19. Papua (South coast) environmental information
20. General PNG rainforest stories
21. PNG Forest Policy
22. East Sepik rainforest preservation activities
23. Photographs (.tif & .pcx) with captions of rainforest
destruction countrywide
Following completion of the uploading of PNG Rainforest Campaign
archival materials, the following direction is planned for
Ecological Enterprises' Rainforest Networking project:
1. The server will be available through gopher access shortly, as
the gopher software is loaded.
2. Additionally, World Wide Web (WWW) software installation will
make the information available through mosaic.
3. Ecological Enterprises possesses rainforest information
gathered on the internet over the past 5 year period, including
information on Brazil, Canada, Russia, Malaysia's forests. This
information will be made available shortly.
In the meantime, significant material has already been uploaded.
So take a peak, and check back frequently to see the service grow.
You are encouraged to circulate this announcement widely. All
information is provided in good faith, for informational purposes
only. The views expressed in these archives are not those of the
University of Wisconsin. All efforts are made to provide
accurate, timely pieces; though ultimate responsibility for
verifying all information rests with the reader.
A service of:
Ecological Enterprises
2701 University Ave., B-368
Madison, WI 53705
USA
(608) 263 3255 daytime phone & fax
gbarry@macc.wisc.edu or switpi@igc.apc.org
Ikolagikol Enterprais
PO Box 126
Madang, Madang Province
Papua New Guinea