A Papua New Guinea campaigner for human and environmental rights, Dorothy Tekwie, says people are prepared to occupy a Port Moresby park to keep it from commercial development.
The National Capital District's governor says Unagi Park has been very popular with families and young people since he had recreational equipment installed there a year ago.
Governor Powes Parkop says a decision by Papua New Guinea's Deputy Prime Minister and Lands Minister, Sir Puka Temu, to rezone the park robs its users of an irreplaceable space.
Dorothy Tekwie says Unagi's reclassification's just one of many dubious land deals in the capital and an online campaign to retain the park now has more than a thousand supporters.
"People are determined to go down there and join hands and that sort of thing to protect the place but we are saying we don't need to come down to do that. We are only expressing our right to recreational services and there's facilities already put up there so they can give another land, government has other land they can go and negotiate and give them another land because this particular land should be left as it was originally allocated for public purposes, for recreational purposes."
Dorothy Tekwie
