Sitting on the eastern half of the island, it has a population of roughly nine million people who speak a combined 850 different languages, each representing a different tribe.
Less well known is that PNG is home to more than 1,000 different tribes, some of them not widely acknowledged until the mid-1990s.
At least, that’s the case on paper.
Despite a historic acknowledgment at the COP26 climate summit last November on the urgency to “halt and reverse” forest loss by 2030, concrete actions to carry out this declaration remain elusive.
One much-discussed method is carbon trading, in which corporations pay to keep forests standing in exchange for being allowed to continue emitting.
Sounds heard during the intro and outro include the following: rusty mouse-warbler, growling riflebird, raggiana/lesser bird of paradise, superb fruit-dove, long-billed honeyeater, little shrike-thrush, brown cuckoo-dove, black-capped lory.
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Tree kangaroos live in lowland and mountainous rainforests in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the far north of Queensland, Australia.