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How Global Biodiversity Targets Risk Becoming Counterproductive: The Case of Papua New Guinea
Conservation & Society, 2012 Despite the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defining 20 targets across 5 strategic goals, Target 11, which relates to protected areas, has received the most emphasis from donors, non-government organisations, and governments, as a performance ...
David R Melick, Jeff P Kinch, Hugh Govan
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Legacy effects of European colonialism on hotspots of biocultural diversity threat
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1742-1754, June 2026.Abstract Patterns of biological diversity have been shaped by cultural practices in the past, while in turn, cultures and languages have evolved in close interaction with local species and ecosystems. However, in the Anthropocene, human activities are putting increasingly diverse pressures on ecosystems and cultures, resulting in accelerating threat ...
Bernd Lenzner +4 more
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Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Molecular Variants, Vanuatu, Melanesia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Four of 391 Ni-Vanuatu women were infected with variants of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Melanesian subtype C. These strains had env nucleotide sequences ≈99% similar to each other and diverging from the main molecular subtypes of HTLV-1 ...
Olivier Cassar +4 more
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Scott Waide, Maseratis and EMTV … how a public outcry restored media freedom
Pacific Journalism Review, 2020 Commentary: ‘It’s like we are operating in a bubble,’ says EMTV deputy news editor Scott Waide from Papua New Guinea at the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum (MMFF). ‘But when you start reaching out, talking to others in the region, you find that you are not
Fred Wesley
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Antibiotic Exposure in Early Life and Risk of Type 1 Diabetes: A Meta‐Analysis
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Volume 28, Issue 6, Page 4653-4670, June 2026.ABSTRACT Background Early‐life antibiotic use may increase the risk of childhood type 1 diabetes (T1D), potentially through gut microbiota dysbiosis and associated effects on immune development. This meta‐analysis evaluated associations between early‐life antibiotic use and T1D.
Sharan Ram +5 more
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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2014 This article considers prospects for effective development partnership in Solomon Islands following the transition of development assistance from the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to bilateral donors in 2013.
Julien Barbara
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Reconstructing Early Human Subsistence in Near Oceania: New Insights From Matenkupkum and Matenbek
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 599-614, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT The colonization of New Ireland ~44–40,000 years ago represents the earliest evidence of human occupation in Near Oceania. Yet, the precise impacts of climatic changes on subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene, Last Glacial Maximum, and Holocene remain poorly understood.
Joëlle den Toom +3 more
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 136-141, May 2026.Abstract This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle.
Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Novel Human Herpesvirus 8 Subtype D Strains in Vanuatu, Melanesia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007 We show human herpesvirus 8 with diverse molecular subtype D variants to be highly endemic among the Ni-Vanuatu population. Most K1 genes were nearly identical to Polynesian strains, although a few clustered with Australian or Taiwanese strains.
Olivier Cassar +8 more
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Archaeobotanical Approaches in the Study of Food Production in Remote Oceania
Ethnobiology Letters, 2017 This short topical review discusses recent archaeobotanical approaches to understanding food production in Remote Oceania (eastern Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia). The region presents some preservation and interpretative challenges, both due to the
Maureece Jacqueline Levin
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