Newly Discovered: Eden All Over
Recent newsreports have highlighted Conservation International's work in Indonesian controlled New Guinea. Conservation International led an expedition to the Foja Mountains in December 2005, finding a plethora of species of animal and plant-life that had gone undiscovered by scientists.
Experts from the United States, Indonesia and Australia documented frogs, butterflies, plants and an orange-faced honeyeater, the first new bird found on the island in more than 60 years.
"It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on Earth," said Bruce Beehler, vice president of Conservation International's Melanesia Center for Biodiversity Conservation.
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