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Home A Biodiversity Conservation Plan for Papua New Guinea Based on Biodiversity Trade-offs AnalysisCommitments These are attributes, which might be used to commit RMUs to a priority set regardless of their complementarity value. Existing protected areas formed the only commitment attribute used in this study. The status information for these areas was supplied by the PNG Office of Environment and Conservation (OEC). Rare and threatened species could also have been used as commitment attributes, so that RMUs with rare and threatened species could be committed to the priority set up front, instead of being used as attributes for the calculation of complementarity, as they were here. This is an option that OEC might explore as the BioRap tools are implemented. Figure 1c is a map of existing protected areas, fitted to RMU boundaries (which is why some boundaries are so convoluted). Table 1 summarises the properties of the set of existing protected areas.
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