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Scientists described a new, cryptic fantail bird hiding in the forests of Indonesia’s remote Babar Islands, a species no one had ever named

A bird that has lived for centuries in the forests of Indonesia’s Babar Islands finally has a name. Researchers formally described Myzomela babarensis as a distinct species after studying 28 museum ...
VICE

This DJ is Heading Deep Into Indonesia’s Jungles to Record the Sounds of a Vanishing Ecosystem

It took days of trekking through the dense rainforests of Papua, often rising well before dawn, to capture the sounds featured on Ninda Felina’s latest track “The Birds of Paradise,” a laid-back ...
Digital Journal

Saving Indonesia’s birds-of-paradise one village at a time

Deep in Indonesia’s easternmost province, a group of birdwatchers wait in earnest hoping to glimpse the renowned birds-of-paradise. Once plentiful in Papua’s jungles, rampant poaching and ...
The Christian Science Monitor

How bird poachers in Indonesia turned their town into a perch for birders

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...