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If it were not for the traditional custodians of an old-growth forest in the Solomon Islands, scientists may have never caught a glimpse of it: a rodent species of unusual size, quietly living in the trees and crunching through coconuts with its giant,
The people who live on the island of Vangunu were adamant that the critically endangered species still existed. They helped researchers prove that they were right.
Uromys vika, considered one of the world's rarest rodents, was captured on camera for the first time on the tiny island of Vangunu in the Solomon Islands, where its habitat is being destroyed by loggers.