Lengguru, a lost world
From March 14 to March 31, 2016, the University of Montpellier is hosting the exhibition "Lengguru, a lost world" in the lobby of the Palais Universitaire des Sports. This is an opportunity for the general public to discover, through images, the initial results of the most important scientific expedition ever conducted in Indonesia.
An appointment has been made for an extraordinary meeting with IRD scientists, coordinators of the expedition. This is one of the last unexplored territories on the planet. Located in West Papua, this vast mountain range, twice the size of Corsica, isolated and wild, is teeming with unknown species. A real treasure trove for naturalists...
An extraordinary scientific and human adventure
For the Lengguru scientific expedition at the end of 2014, more than seventy scientists—ichthyologists, marine biologists, hydrologists, botanists, ornithologists, entomologists, and herpetologists—braved these impenetrable primary forests to discover an exceptionally rich fauna and flora, on land, under the sea, and even in underground rivers. The results were impressive, with the discovery of around fifty species that were probably unknown until now.
Visit the expedition's website to discover Lengguru and its extraordinary biodiversity in the company of the expedition's scientific coordinators.
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