YUS Conservation Area, Protected area in Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea.

YUS Conservation Area covers 760 km2 of tropical forest on the Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, running from coral reefs off the northern coast up to 4,000-metre peaks of the western Saruwaged Mountains. It is named after the Yopno, Uruwa and Som rivers that cross it, and its forests hold 268 bird species, 44 mammals and 26 frogs.

YUS Conservation Area was established in 2009 as Papua New Guinea's first conservation area, named after the Yopno, Uruwa and Som rivers. The Woodland Park Zoo's Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program worked with local landowners and the PNG government for more than 12 years to create it, backed by Conservation International, National Geographic and Germany's BMU through KfW. In 2012 a team of 12 rangers was set up to map and patrol the area.

The name YUS comes from the Yopno, Uruwa and Som rivers that cross the area. Land stays under customary ownership, and people from 35 villages formally pledged to ban all hunting, logging and mining on the pledged land. A team of 12 rangers, set up in 2012, maps and patrols the reserve.

The area spans 760 km2 from the northern coast's coral reefs up to 4,000-metre peaks of the western Saruwaged Mountains, so plan routes by elevation and river crossings. A team of 12 rangers, set up in 2012, maps and patrols the reserve; arrange visits through them or the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program rather than setting out alone.

The reserve's biomass stores about 13 million tonnes of carbon, which logging and slash-and-burn clearing could otherwise release. A team of 12 rangers set up in 2012 maps and patrols the area, working with landowners from 35 villages who pledged to ban hunting, logging and mining.