New Caledonia, French unique collectivity in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 900 miles (1,500 km) east of Australia. It includes the island of New Caledonia (the Grande Terre), where the capital, Noumea, is located; the Loyalty Islands; the Belep Islands; and the Ile des Pins. Learn more about New Caledonia here.
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Cloud Forests: Narrow Bands of Biodiversity Filled With Mist, Fog and Mystery
Life in particular altitudinal conditions that are narrowing with climate change
This story is part of the Landscape News series Forgotten Forests.
Hiking through the montane cloud forests of New Caledonia’s Mount Panié, fog often blinded Center for International Forestry Research director general Robert Nasi from seeing his own outstretched hands. “It’s very much an atmosphere of mystery: misty, rainy, generally cold, and not many animals, apart from small birds,” he recalls from past research journeys through the landscape. “It’s kind of this spooky feeling, where you know you are in a place where you don’t necessarily belong.”