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In many places, the Kokoda Track is little more than a narrow footpath, the earth beneath packed hard from centuries of footsteps. It started as a simple bush trail, one of thousands criss-crossing Papua New Guinea’s formidable mountains, connecting communities living deep in the interior with those on the coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stretching across the peninsula for 96 kilometers, the Kokoda Track runs through the heart of some of the country\u2019s most intact and biodiverse forest. Massive trees tower overhead; birds-of-paradise display from their crowns, tree kangaroos sulk amid the branches, and cassowary prowl the forest floor below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the track also runs through the site of one of World War II\u2019s most gruesome and costly battles \u2014 The Kokoda Campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eighty years later, a Nature Conservancy scientist is creating a 3-D map of the Kokoda Track to help both preserve the site\u2019s military history and protect the surrounding forest\u2019s biodiversity and watershed services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Engineers building a bridge along the track. Photo \u00a9 George Silk \/ Public Domain & the Australian War Memorial<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

War Comes to the Kokoda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

January, 1942. Just a month after bombing Pearl Harbour, Japanese forces landed on the shores of Papua New Guinea\u2019s northern islands, continuing their sweeping invasion across the Pacific. In February they bombed Darwin, Australia\u2019s northernmost major city, while to the south their submarines infiltrated Sydney harbor as warships attacked merchant vessels along Australia\u2019s east coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By July, the Japanese were advancing across New Guinea from the north, along the Kokoda, which was the only passable track connecting the northern side of the island to the capital of Port Moresby. If the Japanese succeeded in taking Papua New Guinea, Australia itself was at risk of an invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Allies launched their offensive in July, when American and Australian forces joined together to attempt to retake New Guinea from the south. By this point the Japanese had advanced almost the entire length of the track. What followed was one of the most costly battles of the Pacific theatre. Inch by muddy inch, the Allied forces fought to retake the Kokoda and push the Japanese back to the sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of local Papuans fought at their side, both as soldiers and as porters to carry supplies, ammunition, and the wounded. Women, children, and the elderly fled deep into the forests, hiding for months as the fighting destroyed their homes, gardens, and sacred sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 6 months, more than 2,000 Australians, 1,300 Papua New Guineans, and 13,000 Japanese lay dead, many of their bodies lost in the jungle mud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Papuan carries transport a wounded man along the track. Photo \u00a9 George Silk \/ Public Domain & the Australian War Memorial<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From Graveyard to Tourist Destination<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With the war\u2019s end, the Kokoda Track went quiet. \u201cThe track gets overgrown, and no one really uses it except the locals,\u201d explains Nate Peterson, a GIS specialist at The Nature Conservancy. \u201cIt essentially reverted back to a bush track for about 60 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things began to change in the early 2000s, when a trickle of Australian tourists began visiting the historic battleground. Peterson, who is an American-Australian, explains that Australians and Americans tend to honor war history differently. \u201cAmericans tend to put successful battles on pedestals, whereas the Aussies tend to revere the places where many lives were lost, like Gallipoli or the Kokoda,\u201d he says. \u201cVisiting these sites is like a pilgrimage, a way of showing respect and honoring their sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As visitor numbers increased, it also became clear that a management plan was critical to protect both the military heritage, environment, and the local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hikers on the modern Kokoda Track. Photo \u00a9 Luke Brindley \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Kokoda Track Initiative<\/a> was established in 2005, bringing together the Papua New Guinea National Museum,<\/a> the Kokoda Track Authority<\/a> \u2014  which manages tourism and interaction with local communities \u2014 and the PNG government\u2019s Conservation Environmental Protection Authority (CEPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later the PNG government established an interim protection zone across the track and surrounding watershed. Together with Australia, their goal is to nominate the area for World Heritage Listing. But it quickly became clear that successfully protecting the track and surrounding forest hinged on having a comprehensive and visual database of the track that all parties could access. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe say the track is like a 96-kilometer-long living museum,\u201d says Andrew Connelly, a military and cultural heritage adviser at the museum. \u201cBut the lights are only on in some of the galleries\u2026 we don\u2019t really know everything that is out there.\u201d Connelly says that they needed a better way to visualize information, to \u201cput the track in conversation with the terrain.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map \u00a9 Nate Peterson \/ TNC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mapping History to Save Forests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TNC\u2019s Peterson is lending his conservation mapping expertise to create such a tool: an open-source GIS platform for visualizing and managing all the data and assets of the Kokoda Track. The map will pull together everything from military sites \u2014 old foxholes, ammunition caches, graves \u2014 to tourist accommodation and bridges or other infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are a lot of artifacts in situ and more and more is being discovered,\u201d says Gregory Bablis, the museum\u2019s principal curator for modern history. People regularly uncover items like mortars, machine guns, grenade launchers, gun clips, helmets, and personal effects of both Japanese and Australian soldiers. \u201cRecently we found a huge weapons cache of 164 shells for Japanese mountain guns,\u201d says Bablis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cache of Japanese mountain gun shells found on Ioribaiwa Ridge after a battle. Photo \u00a9 Public Domain & the Australian War Memorial<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Peterson\u2019s tool will also include data on forest cover, nearby protected areas, and local hydrology to help CEPA and conservationists protect the watershed surrounding the track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite being near the capital, this chunk of forest is relatively intact… there hasn\u2019t been major logging in the area, or major roads or oil palm development,\u201d says Peterson. \u201cProtecting the surrounding environment is key; tourists won\u2019t come to see the war history if the forest is wrecked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the global significance of the sites, such a development is a real possibility. Given the area\u2019s close proximity to the capital, both mining and hydropower companies are interested in the catchment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis type of technology is really critical to sustainable development and managing protected areas, but it\u2019s also expensive,\u201d says Peterson, \u201cand that’s a problem for countries with limited resources and capacity, like PNG.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peterson is cutting costs by using open-source software, and is building the tool to cope with some of the logistical challenges of the area, including limited internet access. \u201cIn developed countries we take internet access for granted and build software applications that depend on the internet to work,\u201d says Peterson. His tool will be capable of running without internet access on smartphones or tablets, allowing people to use it on the track itself to verify existing data or enter new information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something they can use to better manage other protected areas in Papua New Guinea and the surrounding region, too,\u201d Peterson adds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Local carriers were critical to the Allied advance in New Guinea. Here, they assemble to listen to an Allied officer. Photo \u00a9 George Silk \/ Public Domain & the Australian War Memorial<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Touchstone to History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beyond archaeology or conservation, the Kokoda database will be a tool to share just how transformative WWII was to Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peterson carries a 1-kina coin in his pocket, dating from 1975, the year PNG became independent from the Commonwealth. \u201cIt reminds me how Papua New Guinea is such a young country,\u201d he says. \u201cThey have gone from strings of shell money to modern currency in the space of my lifetime. That blows me away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn Australian commentator once said that PNG was… built from the rubbish left behind from the war,\u201d adds Bablis. \u201cThe war was a massive global event that saw the accelerated transference of ideas and technology from different countries to PNG.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By protecting the Kokoda and its forests, we preserve the moment in history when those worlds collided. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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