Saturday 8th November, from the dhow. Saturday is being spent travelling from Urisa to Kaimana. We should have reached our destination (the Kumawa mountain range) without passing through Kaimana again, but an unexpected event has obliged us to return. Indeed, the Airaha 2’s captain has lost a relative and has gone back home to Sorong for a few days. The … Continue reading →

Friday 7th November, from the base camp in Urisa. While everybody is busy bringing down the camp, the ornithologists and the herpetologists are back from their stay near Sewiki lake.They tell us about their adventures. The terrain was rugged and difficult, overlooked by very steep, unstable and sharp-edged limestone lapies. Their stay was punctuated by violent storms, which were a … Continue reading →

Research teams left Lobo on Friday 31th October, an opportunity to review the field work so far. Here is an abstract on herpetofauna By Evy Arida, Wahyu Trilaksono, Antoine Fouquet, and Philippe Gaucher Little is known on the herpetofauna of the karst area of West Papua such as Lengguru. Despite the short duration of our stay in Lobo in the … Continue reading →

Research teams left Lobo on Friday 31th October, an opportunity to review the field work so far. Here is an abstract on birds, By Hidayat Ashari & Suparno, Christophe Thébaud and Borja Mila The Lengguru area, with the Lengguru River as the main river, is an interesting spot for bird watching. In the Lobo area, several habitat types can be … Continue reading →

Research teams left Lobo on Friday 31th October, an opportunity to review the field work so far. Here is an abstract on insects, By Pungki Lupiyaningdyah & Endang Cholik In Lobo, the Indonesian team only focused on Odonata (dragonflies). As there are presently no Odonata from the Lengguru region in the collections of the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, this expedition is … Continue reading →