Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

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culi
It's incredibly difficult to do research in West Papua which is under very violent occupation by Indonesia, the US, Britain, South Korea, the Netherlands, and France. Foreign journalists and human rights monitors are basically completely barred. Much of this decades long conflict is around the US-owned Grasberg Minehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasberg_mine
swiftcoder
Really cool. I hope they succeed in establishing native rights to the forest before the logging companies make them extinct again.
culi
Cogito, who does some of the most astounding and in-depth research on global histories, just came out with an incredible documentary about the history of West Papua that changed the way I see it forever. I highly recommend it (and most of Cogito's work. Even his extensive citations are worth spending time with)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWp5904RkJYThis is an area where raising the West Papua can give you 15 years in prison.
msuniverse2026
Always surprised when I see new animals discovered. Especially in tiny places like Borneo which seems to be the spawn point for new animals god is testing out.
RomannBami
C'est vraiment super, mais faisons très attention quand même
triyambakam
I wouldn't be surprised if more such discoveries were found. Papua is, as best as I can describe it, insane.
hulitu
> thought extinct for 6000 yearsDoes this makes sense for an English speaker ?
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