The Natural History Unit of BBC just came back from their expedition in the heart of Papua New Guinea. The team of scientists found a Lost World of new animal species on an extinct kilometer deep volcano crater of Mt. Bosavi. The prisitine jungles within the crater allowed many animals to develop in isolation for the last 200,000 years since the volcano last erupted.
Among the 40 new unidentified species of animals, the most bizzare was a giant woolly rat the size of a house cat and a kangaroo that evolved to live in trees. The isolation of the site has conditioned the animals not to be afraid of humans. It is astounding to think that there are patches of nature that still remain untouched and undiscovered. The challenge now is to protect and save these natural edens from habitat loss because of logging.
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