The New Guinea Rainforest covers much of the island of New Guinea, shared by Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian provinces of Papua, and is described as the third largest rainforest on Earth after the Amazon and the Congo Basin, stretching across roughly 73 million hectares. Despite the island covering only about one percent of the world's land surface, its rainforest is estimated to hold around seven percent of the world's species, an extraordinary concentration of biodiversity shaped by New Guinea's rugged, largely inaccessible mountainous interior. The forest also functions as a major carbon sink, storing an estimated 6.9 billion tonnes of carbon in its trees and soils. Much of the rainforest remains remote and sparsely surveyed, and conservation organizations work directly with local communities, including in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay Province, to protect it from logging and land conversion.
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Biogeographic Realm Protected StatusLarge-scale biome/ecoregion spanning many jurisdictions: it contains formally protected reserves and parks alongside unprotected land, so no single stronger category applies to the region as a whole. Area (sq km)This is the total land area of the island of New Guinea; no source found separately measures the rainforest cover alone in square kilometers, but the rainforest covers most of the island. Connections
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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Zaglossus attenboroughi
Source Bare-legged swiftlet (Wikipedia)
Source World Wildlife Fund
Source Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology): Dorcopsis atrata - Animal Diversity Web
Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Varanus salvadorii
Source Araucaria cunninghamii (Wikipedia)
Source Pesquet's parrot (Wikipedia)
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Source World Wildlife Fund
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1. World Wildlife Fund
2. New Guinea (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIntroductionQuote, Introduction
New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, fossilized Nugini, also known as Papua or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi).
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Zaglossus attenboroughi
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyHosts: Attenborough's Long-beaked Echidna, Geographic Range; HabitatQuote, Hosts: Attenborough's Long-beaked Echidna, Geographic Range; Habitat
Zaglossus attenboroughi is endemic to Papua, New Guinea ... Sir David's long-beaked echidnas live in forested mountainous areas of the Cyclops Mountains
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Varanus salvadorii
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyHosts: Crocodile Monitor, Geographic Range; HabitatQuote, Hosts: Crocodile Monitor, Geographic Range; Habitat
Papuan monitors are endemic to the island of New Guinea ... Papuan monitors primarily reside in coastal lowland environments, mainly tropical rainforests and mangrove swamplands.
Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology): Dorcopsis atrata - Animal Diversity Web
Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)Hosts: Black dorcopsis, Geographic Range; HabitatQuote, Hosts: Black dorcopsis, Geographic Range; Habitat
New Guinea; off the southeastern Papau coast of New Guinea on the Goodenough Islands ... within their area they occupy a wide variety of niches including the moist forests of lowland and montane rain forest
Pesquet's parrot (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Pesquet's parrot, Lead section: The species is endemic to hillQuote, Hosts: Pesquet's parrot, Lead section: The species is endemic to hill
The species is endemic to hill and montane rainforests in New Guinea.
Bare-legged swiftlet (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Bare-legged swiftlet, Lead section: It is found in New Guinea,Quote, Hosts: Bare-legged swiftlet, Lead section: It is found in New Guinea,
It is found in New Guinea, in subtropical and tropical moist montane forests.
Araucaria cunninghamii (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Hoop Pine, Section: Habitat: The species is found in theQuote, Hosts: Hoop Pine, Section: Habitat: The species is found in the
The species is found in the dry rainforests of New South Wales and Queensland and in New Guinea.
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