Scientists discover new forest with undiscovered species on Google Earth

Scientists discover new forest with undiscovered species on Google Earth

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Conservationists have found a host of new species after discovering uncharted new territory on the internet map Google Earth.

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The mountainous area of northern Mozambique in southern Africa had been overlooked by science due to inhospitable terrain and decades of civil war in the country.
However, while scrolling around on Google Earth, an internet map that allows the viewer to look at satellite images of anywhere on the globe, scientists discovered an unexpected patch of green.
A British-led expedition was sent to see what was on the ground and found 7,000 hectares of forest, rich in biodiversity, known as Mount Mabu.
In just three weeks, scientists led by a team from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew found hundreds of different plant species, birds, butterflies, monkeys and a new species of giant snake.

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i always thought there would be a find like this in the congo. tons of acerage and nobody has ever been there

This is great.

Its awesome when they find new species, a tad better than hearing about all those extinctions.

I posted a thread not long ago where they found several new speices in south east asia, including a new type of wolf spider with a leg span of 30 centimeters

extinctions are normal,happens everyday...but this is good news.Still more to go though..we should really invest more in searching for species underwater though,thousands upon thousand waiting for us under there.

A forest on a an area that is almost a desert is surely unexpected, and it shows that there is still much to explores.

I know areas of forest in Canada are unexplored. I wonder if any areas of Alaska are undiscovered?

Cool post. S and F.

Very "Hopeful" find for this Holiday season, S&T from me as well.

And from the OP's site posted, the finders quote covers it all!!

"We cannot say we have discovered all the biodiversity areas in the world, there are still ones to discover and it helps to find new species to make people realise what is out there."

"Couldn't of said it better myself.."

Great, does anyone have a google maps link ?

New species! wow.

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Great a new area to exploit! Thanks Google

I hope I'm wrong!

Here is Michael Rivero’s suggestion of how to search the earth’s unknown places.

Scientists discover new forest with undiscovered species on Google Earth
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Conservationists have found a host of new species after discovering uncharted new territory on the internet map Google Earth.
Webmaster's Commentary:
I think I am going to set up a new website and all it will be is that volunteers from around the world will log in and receive a set of grid coordinates for a 1 mile by 1 mile area on Earth, and they will search through it and click off some checkboxes as to what is there plus an open text note field.
Google Earth has already found ancient lost cities and other such wonders. Maybe it is time to organize an online search!

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Of course this does nothing to penetrate what remains our ‘ultimate frontier’, the depths of the ocean, as a previous poster aptly pointed out. One step at a time.

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Originally posted by FlakeMaker
Great, does anyone have a google maps link ?

16°17'56.19"S 36°23'44.61"E
That should throw you close to there. To me it doesn't look like it would be where an unexpected patch of forest would be but it's close to where this link sent me. LINK

With this post, Weathermans, and another that makes three announcements made this December for discoveries of hundreds of new species. All in different parts of the world as well. The link above has some pretty cool pictures, here is one of them:

There's so much yet to discover right here on Planet Earth. I'm a sky man but being realistic I may take more interest in what's going on right here on the ground. There's so many areas that are undiscovered, especially those in the oceans and a little beneath it too.

i agree that we need to start exploring under water a bit more. there may be tons of alternatives down there....new species...medicine and such.
i think it is important

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Yeah there's things down there for sure. USOs are as common as UFOs, probably the same. Life will be down there in some form, star trek style, but something that doesn't rely on direct sunlight, maybe just the radiation that soaks through the rock.

I find that the way this was discovered is more interesting than the discovery itself.

Don't they have satellites scanning earth all the time?
Google earth is more advanced than NASA?

Nasa found that bridge connecting India to Sri Lanka
Couldn't they find this as well

Anyhow, interesting

I wonder how long before Big Pharma dispatches its R&D folks to make sure there are no new compounds they can synthesize and patent?

Hopefully the local violence will keep them away.

This is a wonderfull find.

Saddly, though, I do wish they hadnt found it. It seems to me that when they find things, the next step is always to destroy it in one way or another.

Cool.
More lumber for the Chinese to build and develop with.