‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge

Mongabay
Apr 14, 2026, 10:22 pm70 ptsTrending
It started with a set of photographs, taken of an animal captured in 2015 on the Bird’s Head Peninsula in Indonesian Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea. The smallish animal with “large hands” looked a bit like a slow loris, a small primate that doesn’t live on the island, or perhaps a…

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