It’s 6.30 am, and I’m being led up a narrow mountain path by two young boys, 5 and 7, who deftly lop-off plants and vines that come in our way with their machetes. Their father is behind us, as he’s ...

David Attenborough has been fascinated by birds of paradise since he was a child. They inspired him to embark, aged 31, on an epic adventure to the remote island of New Guinea in the hope of filming ...

Miriam Supuma’s honors research was on PNG forest dynamics including mortality, recruitment, and growth rates of trees within 4.2 ha of plots at Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area. In addition ...

In a small forest clearing in Papua New Guinea, a male six-wired bird of paradise is getting ready for a show-stopping number. He rears up and spreads his wings so that they encircle his body like a ...

Deep within Papua’s lush tropical jungles, two hours by road from Jayapura, its capital city, is a world that has endlessly fascinated bird lovers and photographers. Drenched by the wet season’s rains ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We had already yomped up and down slippery, muddy ravines and squelched through a steamy rainforest, our ankles ...