Scientists working with Indigenous communities in Papua, Indonesia, have stunned the conservation world by confirming that two small mammals thought extinct for around 6,000 years are alive in the ...

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

EAST AWIN, Papua New Guinea, October 14 (UNHCR) - Almost a year to the day since 184 refugees from Indonesia's Papua province (formerly known as Irian Jaya) were transferred to the remote refugee ...

Located at the edge of the western Pacific Ocean, New Guinea is a vast island where the biota of Asia and Australasia meet, making it a melting pot of unique plants and animals that occur nowhere else ...