Author Topic: Lost World’ of wildlife found in Indonesia (Read 228 times)

DREDIOCK · « **on:** February 07, 2006, 03:23:11 PM »

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

Lost world, New species Found in Indonesia

xrtoronto · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2006, 03:25:52 PM »

Ya, I read that earlier this afternoon too Drediock. Fascinating.

aztec · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2006, 04:18:53 PM »

ummm, Honeyeater Bird Pot Pie.

texace · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2006, 04:52:50 PM »

Give it about fifteen years. It'll be flattened, paved, and built on.

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2006, 05:41:10 PM »

I read about it this morning. All that and they just have two and a half miles of trail so far. Imagine what else they will find as they delve deeper into the jungle and the rainy season ends.

Makes me wish I had made different career choices. Would love to be there.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2006, 06:24:29 PM »

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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
Makes me wish I had made different career choices. Would love to be there.

I always wanted to be a DJ at a strip club.

xrtoronto · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2006, 06:33:34 PM »

I wanted to drive around in a van and solve mysteries

Silat · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2006, 06:44:28 PM »

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Originally posted by texace
Give it about fifteen years. It'll be flattened, paved, and built on.

It will be called the GOLDEN EARTH initiative by the administration..