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New species of jewel-babbler from Papua New Guinea may be endangered

By Shreya Dasgupta Within a forested limestone landscape of Papua New Guinea lives a shy, striking bird that’s new to science ...
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New Guinea’s forests

New Guinea is staggeringly rich in life. Occupying just 0.5% of Earth’s land surface, it hosts an estimated 5-8% of all ...
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The science behind the vulturine guinea fowl’s striking feathers

On the open savannas of East Africa, a flock of vulturine guinea fowl looks almost unreal. Bodies are patterned with crisp ...
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Esthetic birds: the hut and the garden of the Gardener bird of New Guinea. After Odordo Beccari

Gill, Theodore. 1900. "Esthetic birds: the hut and the garden of the Gardener bird of New Guinea. After Odordo Beccari." The Osprey, 4, (6) 83–85.
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In New Guinea, megadiverse lowland forests are most at risk of deforestation

Located at the edge of the western Pacific Ocean, New Guinea is a vast island where the biota of Asia and Australasia meet, making it a melting pot of unique plants and animals that occur nowhere else ...