Eugene ParnellMay 27
In 1994, I visited West Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea. I was in graduate school doing thesis research. I came within 60 miles of this mountain--I was obsessed with seeing the only glacier topped mountain between the Himalayas and the Andes. But due to the insurgency, i couldn't reach it... I always told myself someday I'd return to see that glacier but it looks like I will have misssed my chance. #indonesia
#newguinea #ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/27/witnessing-the-disappearance-of-indonesia-eternity-glaciers
‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’

Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining “eternal snow” in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice

The Guardian
Donald HobernMay 25

I've been going through unsorted accessions in the #Australian National #Insect #Collection (#ANIC) here in Canberra to find any plume #moths (#Pterophoridae) and many-plume moths (#Alucitidae) before doing more work to revise the fauna of these two families.

Today, I found this specimen collected by David Rentz in #Kuranda #Queensland in 2007 - it's not a known named Australian species but it looks a close match for Platyptilia microbscura recorded only from #Misool, an island to the west of #NewGuinea:

https://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Pterophoridae/Platyptilia/Platyptilia%20microbscura.htm

#entomology #Lepidoptera

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨May 20

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🥁🦜 Many #birds use tools, but the palm #cockatoo, a native #parrot of northern #Queensland, #Australia, and #NewGuinea, is the only animal on #Earth known to make #music with a tool.

Male palm cockatoos craft drumsticks from branches and use them to drum on their prepared tree hollows in the tops of old-growth #trees. Each male has its own rhythmic style, sometimes drumming 200 beats in a row.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/palm-cockatoos-only-animal-tool-use-drumming-video

#ornithology #wildlife #science #biology #evolution #ecology #research #animals #conservation #drums #endangeredspecies #forest #instruments #mating #nature #rainforest #sound #trees #tksst #video

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨May 19

🥁🦜 Many #birds use tools, but the palm #cockatoo, a native #parrot of northern #Queensland, #Australia, and #NewGuinea, is the only animal on #Earth known to make #music with a tool.

Male palm cockatoos craft drumsticks from branches and use them to drum on their prepared tree hollows in the tops of old-growth #trees. Each male has its own rhythmic style, sometimes drumming 200 beats in a row.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/palm-cockatoos-only-animal-tool-use-drumming-video

#ornithology #wildlife #science #biology #evolution #ecology #research #animals #conservation #drums #endangeredspecies #forest #instruments #mating #nature #rainforest #sound #trees #tksst #video

Palm Oil DetectivesMay 15
Eastern Long-beaked #Echidnas are rare egg-laying #mammals 🥚🦔 They are a prehistoric fever dream with a tube-like beak and hedgehog like spines. Help them survive in #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 when you #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤮🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/03/eastern-long-beaked-echidna-zaglossus-bartoni/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
The World at WarApr 6
USAAF fighter Ace Richard West (14 victories) with his Curtiss P-40 Warhawk at Finschhafen Airfield - New Guinea 1942.CREDIT:world war 2 aviation #ww2 #worldwar2 #papuanewguinea #newguinea #p40 #curtiss #warhawk #usaaf #pilot #history
TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Mar 30

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐦🧬 This #Cornell Lab #video uses #NewGuinea’s #Birds of Paradise to explain speciation, demonstrating how one species splits into many through reproductive isolation and colonization.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/speciation-illustrated-introduction-cornell-lab-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=speciation-cornell-birds

#animals #genetics #geography #geology #history #island #migration #nature #newguinea #reproduction #science #tksst

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Mar 27

🐦🧬 This #Cornell Lab #video uses #NewGuinea’s #Birds of Paradise to explain speciation, demonstrating how one species splits into many through reproductive isolation and colonization.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/speciation-illustrated-introduction-cornell-lab-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=speciation-cornell-birds

#animals #genetics #geography #geology #history #island #migration #nature #newguinea #reproduction #science #tksst

Palm Oil DetectivesMar 25
Reclusive and fuzzy Mountain #Cuscus of #WestPapua are cuddly #marsupials, who prefer to snooze among the tangled vines of trees rather than move around. Help them and forests of #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 to survive #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤮☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife https://wp.me/pcFhgU-6rE?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
RDNMar 25

The pygmy long-fingered opossum and the ring-tailed glider went extinct in the Pleistocene, 6,000 years ago--except they have just been found alive in New Guinea.

Summary: https://www.sci.news/biology/two-marsupials-new-guinea-14648.html

Original paper: https://journals.australian.museum/flannery-2026-rec-aust-mus-781-1734/

#Science #Biology #Wildlife #Extinction #NewGuinea

Two Species of Marsupials Thought Lost for 6,000 Years Found Alive in New Guinea | Sci.News

In the remote rainforests of New Guinea’s Vogelkop Peninsula, scientists have spotted two marsupial species -- the pygmy long-fingered possum (Dactylonax kambuayai) and the ring-tailed glider (Tous ayamaruensis) -- believed to have been lost for roughly 6,000 years.

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