Wau Ecology Institute

Wau Ecology Institute
AbbreviationWEI
Formation1961
FounderJudson Linsley Gressitt[1]
Dissolved2007
WebsiteWau Ecology Institute

The Wau Ecology Institute (WEI)[2] was established in 1961 near the town of Wau, Papua New Guinea, in Morobe province, as a field station of the Bishop Museum. In 1973 it became an independent environmental organisation. It has laboratory space for visiting scientists, a herbarium and zoological reference collections. The Institute ceased operations around 2007 and is now run as a local coffee plantation by former employees and area gold miners.

  1. ^ Jamon Alex Halvaksz (2020). Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea. University of Washington Press. pp. 102–. ISBN 978-0-295-74761-3.
  2. ^ Bram Büscher; Veronica Davidov (2013). The Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus: Political Economies and Rural Realities of (un)Comfortable Bedfellows. Routledge. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-1-135-94526-8.