It’s not every day you help to rediscover an ‘extinct’ echidna!
Until recently, Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) was thought to be extinct as it was not seen for six-decades!
An international research team, led by James Kempton from Oxford University, spent four weeks deep within the Cyclops Mountains in Papua, Indonesia and via a remote camera system, gained photographic and video evidence of the species. Their success is a result of years of planning, expertise and partnership with the local community, using indigenous and local knowledge to map the terrain.
