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Village youth offload food, fuel, and research supplies at the end of the navigable road to Wanang. Cargo is carried four hours walk to the Wanang research camp.
Village youth offload foo...		Cargo carriers ford the Sogeram river with supplies destined for the Wanang research camp.
Cargo carriers ford the S...		A Wanang village elder uses his flashlight as a drum in a nocturnal traditional dance to celebrate the completion of Weiblen’s three-year research project funded by the US National Science Foundation.
A Wanang village elder us...		Local villagers and biologists collect data on the plants and insects of the Wanang rainforest.
Local villagers and biolo...		Cages containing Wanang rainforest timber are designed to capture and inventory bark beetles, major pests of forest trees.
Cages containing Wanang r...		Parataxonomist Martin Keltim removes pieces of Wanang rainforest leaves for subsequent DNA analysis. DNA sequences are used to identify trees and understand their evolutionary relationships.
Parataxonomist Martin Kel...
An elderly Wanang couple display their traditional dress the morning after a night of uninterrupted dancing. Tribal culture is transmitted to younger generations through dance and song.
An elderly Wanang couple ...		Tropical hardwood timber awaits export to world markets from land adjacent to Wanang. Timber is a major industry in New Guinea and threatens the traditional lifestyle of forest people.
Tropical hardwood timber ...		Boar’s tusks, shells, bones, and seeds decorate a Wanang dancer in festive attire.
Boar’s tusks, shells, bon...		Tribal leader Filip Damien and Czech ecologist Dr. Vojtech Novotny mark a rainforest tree with a numbered, aluminum tag for long-term rainforest research at Wanang.
Tribal leader Filip Damie...		Dr. George Weiblen carries a wallaby (a small rainforest kangaroo), harvested by Wanang villagers on an expedition to the traditional hunting grounds of the Wanang people. Hunting grounds are protected by tribal owners and visited only twice a year to sustain viable game populations.
Dr. George Weiblen carrie...

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