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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

a story likes this makes up for all of the other horror i read about all day long



Lost World of New Species Found in Jungle (Jan. 7) - Scientists said on Tuesday they had found a "Lost World" in an Indonesian mountain jungle, home to dozens of exotic new species of birds, butterflies, frogs and plants. "It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on Earth," said Bruce Beehler, co-leader of the team of 11 U.S., Indonesian, and Australian scientists who made the discoveries during a monthlong expedition.
The team also found wildlife that were remarkably unafraid of humans during its survey, he said. The group visited the Foja Mountains, which have more than 2 million acres of old growth tropical forest located in eastern Indonesia's Papua province.
Indigenous people living near the Foja range, which rises to 7,218 feet, said they did not venture into the trackless area of 1,200 square miles -- roughly the size of Rhode Island.
The team of scientists rode helicopters to boggy clearings in the pristine zone.
"We just scratched the surface," Beehler told Reuters. "Anyone who goes there will come back with a mystery.".....................
check out some of the pictures, they're AMAZING bird picture 1: The team took the first known photographs of Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise, which was described by hunters in New Guinea in the 19th century. bird picture 2: A golden-fronted bowerbird, in the first photographic record of the species, is one of dozens of animals found in an Indonesian jungle dubbed "Lost World." picture 3: The golden-mantled tree kangaroo -- thought to have been hunted to near extinction -- also lives there. (picture 3 is in honor of skippy

2 comments:

Rory Shock said...

Beautiful story. Now let humans protect this and leave it be to the extent possible. But it's a good feeling you brought us with this post, letting usknow that some parts of the world have managed to survive away from the destructive industrial[ous] humans looking for a way to "use" or "tame" or "clean up" nature. Her is nature just being nature. What a beautiful thing. Remember the discovery of the Ivory billed woodpecker down in Arkansas not too long ago (species thought to have been extinct for 1/2 century + due to habitat destruction and the ornamental feather industry) ... got the same feeling after that story ... some there are little wild spots that are not conducive to human exploitation with today's technology ... and that's a beautiful thing

Unknown said...

thank you for lightening my heart mr shock