The project also involved a collaborative research work with Papua New Guinea University of Technology on rice pest.

[10] In May 2013, students from Bugandi Secondary School and Lae Secondary School (Eriku) engaged in fighting resulting in one death and serious injury of another student [11] The Atzera Range starts at Bugandi and runs adjacent to the Markham River has an elevation of 280 meters above sea level.

[14] The possibility of major landsides in this area has increased as a result of human modification to the natural vegetation cover through clearing and gardening.

Hundreds of people at the Five Mile settlement along the Highland Highway were also affected by mud-slides from the Atzera mountain ranges.

The Atzera project folded after only three years despite efforts to train and raise awareness on the benefits of charcoal, the uptake in PNG households was minimal.

[28] Settlement buildings are usually made of wood, tin, cardboard and tar paper amongst other material representing a desperate effect to provide shelter.