Maisin Tapa Cloth Distributors has been in operation for five years in the production and sale of tapa cloth. It is a community-based operation and deals directly with the Maisin families and clans. Presently the company is supplying local markets in Papua New Guinea. The purpose of the company is to assist these remote Maisin communities in earning much needed cash income from tapa cloth, help promote this product and preserve an ancient tropical rainforest. The company supplies this traditional, uniquely-designed tapa cloth and various items such as hats, bags etc made of tapa cloth. It also supplies plain tapa cloth.Maisin communities live in and around Collingwood Bay in the Northern province of Papua New Guinea. The Maisin consist of about thirty-six clans and are the proud owners of a 200, 000 hectares of ancient tropical rain forest. With the assistance of various NGOs, the Maisin have legally barred foreign logging companies from entering their forest. They have opted for more sustainable, environmentally friendly means of utilising their land and their forest resource. Tapa cloth stood out as the natural alternative resource for the Maisin. The company is dedicated to promoting tapa cloth as an alternative source of income and preserving this natural heritage and protecting it from unscrupulous foreign logging companies.Maisin Tapa cloth Distributors therefore means a lot to the community and the unique environment in which they live. It means preserving this natural heritage, one of the last remaining ancient tropical rainforest from degradation, destroying forever the natural habitat for various unique species of wild life.