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When perusing an area of Mozambique using Google Earth, researchers found a path of green forest, which had never been spotted before.
An expedition to the Google Earth hotspot found a piece of paradise, containing a rare colony of birds, some giant snakes (snakes in paradise?) and an uncommon type of orchid.
The newly-discovered area is, according to the Daily Mail, 27 miles along and contains 150-feet tall trees, samango monkeys and a number of antelopes.
The leader of the 28-man crew who visited Mozambique, Jonathan Timberlake, said about the discovery: 'The phenomenal diversity is just mind-boggling: seeing how things are adapted to little niches, to me this is the incredible thing.'
Very cool and shows how much we have yet to learn. There are still a few blank spots on the map, hopefully we will be able to study them before they are gone... and preserve at least some of them.
If researchers can find these places with Google Earth, so can loggers, poachers and other folks with bad intentions. I think it'd be better if this wasn't in a news story.
If researchers can find these places with Google Earth, so can loggers, poachers and other folks with bad intentions. I think it'd be better if this wasn't in a news story.
I believe there are efforts by a number of countries to ban access to Google Earth or at least deny details of locations where there are military installations.
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