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A female Highland Dancer from the Porgera region of Papua New Guinea celebrates her nation's Independence day with dances and festivals on September 16, 2009, and welcomes Conservation International's Rapid Assessment team of scientists. © CI/photo by Leeanne Alonso The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
Local Papua New Guinean Highland Dancers gather at Porgera Township in Papua New Guinea to celebrate their nation's Independence day with dances and festivals on September 16, 2009, as well as welcome Conservation International's Rapid Assessment team of scientists. © CI/photo by Leeanne Alonso The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
Local Papua New Guinean Highland Dancers gather at Porgera Township in Papua New Guinea to celebrate their nation's Independence day with dances and festivals on September 16, 2009, as well as welcome Conservation International's Rapid Assessment team of scientists. © CI/photo by Leeanne Alonso The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
A group of scientists and local Papua New Guineans participating in the Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) coordinated by Conservation International, gathers for a group photo during their survey of Papua New Guinea's Muller range in September, 2009. © CI/photo by Leeanne Alonso The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program Director, Leeanne Alonso, pauses for a photograph with a local Papua New Guinean guide named Icky, from nearby Tobi Village, which is in Western Province at the base of the hills near Muller Range Camp 1, during the group's survey of the country's Muller Mountain range. September 2009. © CI/photo by Leeanne Alonso The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
Rapid Assessment Program entomologist Andrea Lucky pauses for a photograph with her local field assistants at the high elevation site in the Muller Range of Papua New Guinea. September 2009. © Andrea Lucky The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
(NOT new to science) This previously seen but still undescribed species endemic to Papua New Guinea was observed by Rapid Assessment Program(RAP) researchers in September 2009.This cute little Feather-tailed Possum, Distoechurus sp., was attracted to a light-trap put up by RAP entomologists to catch night-time insects at around 1600 meters elevation in the Muller Range mountains. It may have been attempting to catch and eat moths. This animal is only known from this site and a nearby mountain, where RAP mammalogist, Ken Aplin, found it in 1985. Genetic analysis carried out after the Muller Range RAP finally proved the distinctness of these populations from all others. It still does not have a name. The possum family Acrobatidae is an ancient one, with fossils known from the early Miocene of northern Australia, but their more recent history is a mystery. Nothing much is known about the ecology of Distoechurus but the structure of its tongue suggests a diet that includes nectar. © CI/photo by Stephen Richards The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
(NOT new to science) This is a previously seen but still undescribed species endemic to Papua New Guinea- observed by Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) researchers - This Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene sp. from the Muller Range mountains does not yet have a name but has been found in other parts of New Guinea. It is likely restricted (endemic) to hill forests on the island. Fruit bats are important seed dispersers in tropical forests. © Piotr Naskrecki/iLCP The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
(NOT new to science) This is a previously seen but still undescribed species endemic to Papua New Guinea- observed by Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) researchers - This Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene sp. from the Muller Range mountains does not yet have a name but has been found in other parts of New Guinea. It is likely restricted (endemic) to hill forests on the island. Fruit bats are important seed dispersers in tropical forests. © Piotr Naskrecki/iLCP The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
(NOT new to science) This is a previously seen but still undescribed species endemic to Papua New Guinea- observed by Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) researchers - This Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene sp. from the Muller Range mountains does not yet have a name but has been found in other parts of New Guinea. It is likely restricted (endemic) to hill forests on the island. Fruit bats are important seed dispersers in tropical forests.

© Piotr Naskrecki/iLCP

The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
(NOT new to science) This is a previously seen but still undescribed species endemic to Papua New Guinea- observed by Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) researchers - This Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene sp. from the Muller Range mountains does not yet have a name but has been found in other parts of New Guinea. It is likely restricted (endemic) to hill forests on the island. Fruit bats are important seed dispersers in tropical forests. © Piotr Naskrecki/iLCP The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
(NOT new to science) This is a previously seen but still undescribed species endemic to Papua New Guinea- observed by Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) researchers - This Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene sp. from the Muller Range mountains does not yet have a name but has been found in other parts of New Guinea. It is likely restricted (endemic) to hill forests on the island. Fruit bats are important seed dispersers in tropical forests.

© Piotr Naskrecki/iLCP

The photos and illustrations contained in this lightbox are the property of Conservation International (CI) and CI’s partners. Photos may only be used or distributed in conjunction with the content of CI’s press release.
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