Denham, TimothyUNESCO2020-07-222020-07-22978-607-7579-79-3http://hdl.handle.net/1885/206511The island of New Guinea contains some of the most extensive tracts of tropical rainforest in the world. Like Am-azonia, the Congo Basin and Borneo, the tropical rainforests on New Guinea are today being heavily disturbed, degraded and destroyed by a combination of competing land uses, primarily subsistence and commercial agriculture, oil palm arboriculture and logging (Mack, 2014; Bryan, 2015; also see Tollefson, 2008; Ghazoul and Sheil, 2010). Yet, present-day human impacts on tropical rainforests need to be evaluated against long-term temporal trajectories during which people have acculturated, and effectively domesticated, these forest landscapes.application/pdfen-AU© 2018 UNESCO and INECOLhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/20182020-04-19Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO) license