Where are the friggin’ photos?

The Standard – China’s Business Newspaper — Hmmm. Amazing. Think about this. An unexplored isolated part of the world abundant with life and guess what? New species are discovered. Will wonders never cease! Golly, who knew. What a shock.

That said, where are the frigging photos? Haven’t these explorers ever heard of digital cameras? A blogger would have posted by now.

An international expedition to one of Asia’s most isolated jungles has discovered a “lost world” of previously unknown species and giant flowers as well as rare mammals that were unafraid of humans.

Scientists were stunned to find dozens of new species and resolved a century-old ornithological mystery, said environmental group Conservation International, which organized the trip last December.

The astonishing array of untouched biodiversity was found in the Foja Mountains in the Indonesian-administered western part of the island of New Guinea.

US, Indonesian and Australian experts found species that had never been described before, including frogs, butterflies, plants and an orange-faced honeyeater, the first new bird found on the island in more than 60 years.

“Its as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth,” said Bruce Beehler of Conservation International. “The first bird we saw at camp was a new species. Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance.”

I like the comments about “mammals unafraid of humans” and “hunted to near extinction.” Does anyone see a connection there?