New Guinea Binatang Research Centre

This is to foster farming households' resilience to climate change impacts.

This collaboration with the New Guinea Binatang Research Centre, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under the EU-STREIT PNG Programme has rolled out a series of intensive capacity development workshops. The target is set on vanilla farmers in the Sepik Region of PNG to tackle increasing climate-change impacts on agriculture and food security.

Professor Vojtech Novotny, Director of the New Guinea Binatang Research Centre in Madang, wrote a tribute describing late Erwin’s scientific legacy and its connection to insect ecology research in PNG.

“Erwin was a specialist in Carabid [a beetle group] taxonomy, but his main impact has been elsewhere,” said Prof Novotny.