Parkop: NGOs need Govt support

**Partners with Melanesians chairlady Laeko Bala (left) with Warden Gegera at the Centre for Excellence in Financial Inclusion booth during the National Protected Areas Forum in Port Moresby.**

By DALE LUMA
NON-government organisations (NSOs) are driving the agenda to protect the environment on their own, National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop says. He told the National Protected Areas Forum yesterday that the NGOs were even taking legal action against logging, mining and oil palm companies. Parkop urged the Government to do more to support those trying to protect the environment. “The NGOs and the Government must work together,” he said. “We must also stop the blame game. “We must stop blaming the industrialised counties.

**Karen-Marie Lillie (left) of the Port Moresby Nature Park during the National Protected Areas Forum in Port Moresby.**

“We must be higher than this and find a solution. “We should rise and meet the industrial developed countries half way and find solutions because climate change does not care whether Europe, China, America or whoever else is responsible. “The consequences we will all face together.” Parkop

**A live visual display during the National Protected Areas Forum in Port Moresby yesterday.**

said protecting the environment was not a local or national agenda but a global agenda. Environment Conservation and Climate Change Minister Wera Mori said the country needed to move into a blue and green economy. He warned that if the country was not careful, PNG could start buying oxygen years down the line.