attenborough's long-beaked echidna

More than 60 years after the collection of the only scientific evidence of Attenborough’s Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), a biodiversity training expedition team led by Indonesian NGO Yayasan Pelayanan Papua Nenda (YAPPENDA), with students from Cenderawasih University (UNCEN) and supported by researchers from Oxford University, rediscovered the toddling, nocturnal, egg-laying Attenborough’s Long-beaked Echidna in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains in the Province of Papua. The expedition team—which also included biologists from Mendel University in Brno, Royal Holloway University in London, and Re:wild—captured the first-ever photos and video of the echidna on remote trail cameras set up in the tropical rainforests of the Indonesian province of Papua.