On April 20, Jafet Potenzo Lopes was surveying the south coast of Manatuto municipality, in Timor-Leste, when he recorded something he had not seen in years: three Timor green pigeons, alive, in a location where the species had never been documented before. Lopes is one of Timor-Leste's few field ecologists. He was born and raised in the village of Com, inside Nino Konis Santana National Park - the last place on Earth where a viable population o…
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