The forests of northwestern Papua New Guinea are home to a group of wide-eyed and reclusive marsupials known as tree kangaroos. As their name suggests, they spend a lot of their lives in the ...

Ghost roads' are increasingly damaging the pristine rainforest in Papua New Guinea, affecting the ecosystem tree by tree.

Researchers estimate over half of Papua New Guinea’s plants and animals have yet to be described by science, and around a third of its species are likely unique to the country. open image in gallery ...

Researchers recently discovered several new deep-water species, including sharks, during a three-month expedition in Papua ...

Indonesia released 17 endangered pygmy kangaroos to the rainforest of the Papua province of New Guinea. The marsupials has been confiscated from illegal traders and private collections.

Papua New Guinea - Location and ... The land is divided - to the north and south lie thick rainforest, and through the center runs an east-west chain of mountains with a cooler, drier ecosystem ...

In the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea, streams flow at an incredible speed. The great torrents are the perfect habitat for small, hopping creatures that breed nearby.

Papua New Guinea has one of the largest expanses of tropical rainforest on the planet. But in recent years the island nation just north of Australia has seen a surge in deforestation from logging ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea, March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Papua New Guinea's rainforest conservation efforts successfully slowed the pace of deforestation in 2014-2015, after bringing annual ...

A BBC film crew recording a program in an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea has discovered a new species of giant woolly rat, a frog with fangs and around 40 other exotic creatures unknown to ...

Scientists found a “honking” creature with a “long” tongue in a rainforest of Papua New Guinea and discovered new species, study said. Photo from S. Richards Walking through a dark ...