Communities in New Ireland in Papua New Guinea are calling on the PNG government to make clear its position on deep sea mining.
Local communities are concerned at renewed interest in the Solwara One project to mine the seabed in the Bismarck Sea.
The original project, the brainchild of a company called Nautilus, collapsed in 2018, costing PNG the millions of dollars the government had invested.
The government at that point, under Peter O'Neill, called it a failed project, and his successor, James Marape, at that time, backed Fiji's calls for a moratorium on deep sea mining.
Now a company called Deep Sea Mining Finance claims it has acquired the rights to Solwara and is aiming to be the first to commercially mine the ocean floor.
The company is hoping to extract gold and copper.