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Locals, researchers race to save unique biodiversity of PNG’s Torricellis

Mongabay 18 Apr 2025
“I’m so lucky to be working here.” Tim Flannery of the Australian Museum in Sydney told Mongabay that PNG’s Torricelli Mountains and its immensely rich biodiversity emerged as a result of slow geological processes.
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When sadness strikes I remember I’m not alone in loving the wild boundless beauty of the living world

The Observer 07 Apr 2025
At times my work takes me to the big city and the tall buildings where people with power make decisions that affect the rest of us ... Why does thinking about these creatures, who have no idea that I exist, bring me such comfort? ... 1.06 ... Tim Flannery ... Share.
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A high-flying visitor – the wondrous far eastern curlew – faces fresh threat in NT wetlands haven

The Observer 07 Apr 2025
Hundreds of far eastern curlews fly non-stop more than 10,000km every year to Darwin Harbour from Russia and China ... The birds fly south each year to forage, rest and fatten up during summer before returning to the northern hemisphere ... Tim Flannery ... .
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Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery

The Guardian 06 Apr 2025
Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped outExplore the series – Last chance. the extinction crisis being ignored this election ... ....
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Is eating Tasmanian farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of evolution?

The Observer 06 Apr 2025
Australia is justly famous as a place where ancient species, long extinct elsewhere, live on ... 0.36 ... Flannery ... Prof Tim Flannery is one of Australia’s foremost climate change experts, an internationally recognised scientist, explorer and conservationist.
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