Fieldwork at the final frontier (Image: Novotny Lab)
What is it like to work in the remote forests of Papua New Guinea? Biologist Vojtech Novotny knows better than most. He tells Rowan Hooper about dealing with disease and warring tribes in one of the most linguistically and biologically diverse regions on Earth
Tell me about your work in Papua New Guinea.
We’ve built a research station on the northern coast of New Guinea, only 50 kilometres from Astrolabe Bay, where Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, the first modern biologist and anthropologist to work in New Guinea, spent more than a year in 1871-72. After almost 150 years, there are…
