‘Lost World’ of wildlife found in Indonesia

[The Revolution]

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Describing it as the discovery of a “Lost World,” conservation groups and Indonesia on Tuesday said an expedition to one of Asia’s most isolated jungles had found several dozen new species of frogs, butterflies, flowers and birds.

“It’s as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth,” Bruce Beehler, a Conservation International scientist who led the expedition, said in a statement.

“The first bird we saw at our camp was a new species,” he added. “Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance. We were able to simply pick up two Long-Beaked Echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal that is little known.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11114156/

There are some really nice pictures in the slideshow. :)

[Missy M]

1. I wonder how long it will take man to destroy the new.....

species?

[oldtime dfl_er]

7. They've already upset the delicate balance

of the ecosystem just by being there, sadly.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/936290

[Missy M]

8. And they are already worried about the demand for logging...

in the future. I hope it never happens.

[Taverner]

2. That is tooo cool!

Kangaroos??? In Paupa???

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Thanks for that!

I hope they can protect it, at least for a while.

[Atlas Mugged]

4. Thanks for pointing that out

I'm utterly spellbound!

Let's hope there's no oil there.

[Tulum_Moon]

5. I love this!

I was thinking about the gorillas the other day and how they were discovered not very long ago. I think within the last 100 years or so. And how they are so endangered. Yes, lets hope there are not any natural resources some repuke government "just can't live without"

When ever a new species is found it gives me hope for bigfoot. LOL! :7

[Double T]

6. We need to conserve and protect our environment........

so that places such as this are not ravaged by humankind. Thanks for the great thread!

[Atlas Mugged]

9. Just voted for Greatest

This news was such a refreshing diversion from all the crap the dominant species of this planet has been doing.

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Wow! Great story!

With all the doom and grimness in the news, it's good to hear about stuff like this. Thanks for posting.

[asthmaticeog]

11. K&R

Great story, thank you for posting it!

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Dizzork.

[asthmaticeog]

14. So very butch of you to say so.

[gordianot]

12. Magnificent

SHHHH before it becomes a tourist trap and parking lot.

[jasmeel]

15. What a great story! I hope they can keep it as is. I hope there is

no oil there.

[htuttle]

16. Wow! They still have frogs there!

I wonder how the frogs there have avoided being affected by whatever environmental toxin has been killing all the frogs everywhere else? The fact that they are still apparently thriving leads me to believe that the toxins might be more localized than I'd thought.

[Dover]

17. Reality Check: Behind The Lost World Hype

...Not to put a damper on all the celebrations, but the Cryptomundo Truth Squad has to bring to your attention the following…

The Foja Mountains are in the former Irian Jaya, also known as Indonesian New Guinea, but today known as Papua. That’s on the western half of the island of New Guinea. This “Lost World” is not in Papua New Guinea (PNG), as some articles have reported. These mountains are near the north shore of Papua, not in Papua New Guinea.

Count up the number of new animals - whether birds, frogs, mammals. As opposed to claims of “hundreds” of species, will the final count even reach half a hundred? A close reading of the U.K.’s Independent notes, besides one new bird and two rediscoveries, “also found more than 20 new species of frogs, four new butterflies, five new species of palm and many other plants yet to be classified.” By a generous count, from the known new animals, that’s only a few more than 27 new animal species. Hardly hundreds. And no new mammal species.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/lost-world-hype/