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.
Some publications of the WEI are: