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Distinctive Papua New Guinea fauna dying at feet of hunters, loggers

In Papua New Guinea’s isolated Star Mountains, Indigenous people say the tree kangaroo is king and the bird of paradise is queen. But both have a price on their heads. These extraordinary species have long been prized by traditional hunters, but conservationists now fear the forests they live in, one of Earth’s last great wilderness areas, could soon fall to axe and bulldozer.

Loggers threaten Papua New Guinea wildlife

In Papua New Guinea’s isolated Star Mountains, indigenous people say that the tree kangaroo is king and the bird of paradise is queen. Both have a price on their heads. These extraordinary species have long been prized by traditional hunters, but conservationists now fear that the forests they live in, one of Earth’s last great wilderness areas, could soon fall to axe and bulldozer. “Old people say tree kangaroo is the king,” said Lloyd Leo, a young resident of Golgubip, a mountain community where most people are still subsistence farmers whose ancestors lived a neolithic lifestyle until only decades ago. “He lives high

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