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Everyone was so transfixed. You are seeing a bird that no Western scientist has ever seen. I was shouting. This trip was a once-in-a-lifetime series of shouting experiences.

It has a fairyland quality.

By some miracle of the stars, everything came together.

It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on Earth.

We just scratched the surface. Anyone who goes there will come back with a mystery.

The politics and the environmental constraints of western New Guinea are changing all the time. It is difficult to get permits. By some miracle, everything came together.

We've only scratched the surface.

There was not a single trail, no sign of civilization, no sign of even local communities ever having been there.

No logging permits are given to this area, there is no transport system, not a single road. But clearly with time everything is a threat. In the next few decades there will be strong demands, especially if you think of the timber needs of nearby countries like China and Japan. They will be very hungry for logs.

We stood in awe as the male romped about in the saplings around our entrance trail, flicking his wings and white flank plumes, and whistling his sweet two-note song for the female-plumaged bird. I was too spellbound to go get my camera.

This is one of the last new places to go. This mountain range generates its own species, a little bit like the Galapagos.

The first time I saw the face of that honeyeater with those wattles was a heart-stopping moment.

Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance. We were able to simply pick up two long-beaked echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal that is little known.

There does seem to be an endemic biota of this mountain range. Forty species is not extraordinary in the raw sense, but [it is extraordinary] that they all came from one place, and we believe that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Any expedition visiting in the dry season would probably discover many more butterflies. I suspect there are some areas like this in Africa, and am sure that there are similar places in South America.

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