It’s 6.30 am, and I’m being led up a narrow mountain path by two young boys, 5 and 7, who deftly lop-off plants and vines that come in our way with their machetes. Their father is behind us, as he’s ...

David Attenborough has been fascinated by birds of paradise since he was a child. They inspired him to embark, aged 31, on an epic adventure to the remote island of New Guinea in the hope of filming ...

Miriam Supuma’s honors research was on PNG forest dynamics including mortality, recruitment, and growth rates of trees within 4.2 ha of plots at Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area. In addition ...

Deep within Papua’s lush tropical jungles, two hours by road from Jayapura, its capital city, is a world that has endlessly fascinated bird lovers and photographers. Drenched by the wet season’s rains ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We had already yomped up and down slippery, muddy ravines and squelched through a steamy rainforest, our ankles ...

David Tipling gets to experience the bird-watchers' paradise that is Papua New Guinea where he is prepared for the unexpected. Machine gun fire penetrated the stillness, a quick burst coming from the ...

In a small forest clearing in Papua New Guinea, a male six-wired bird of paradise is getting ready for a show-stopping number. He rears up and spreads his wings so that they encircle his body like a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The spectacular Raggiana Bird of Paradise, which is Papua New Guinea's national bird, has been bred in ...