The chewing of betel nut, the seed of the Areca palm, is common across Asia and the Pacific. In Papua New Guinea, where it is known locally as "buai", it is consumed with a mustard stick dipped in ...

It always seems to rain at night here in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. This is why Lidia ... Mark hacks out pulp from the heart of a felled palm tree; the pulp is transferred to a trough ...

Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia, West Papua, and Papua New Guinea. Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest ...

Far away in the Pacific Ocean, is the island of Papua New Guinea. Port Moresby is the capital city. Here the climate is tropical, and the sandy beaches are lined with palm trees. Reenie ...