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Brent Stirton/Getty Images/WWF-UK 'FINAL FRONTIER' In the decade between 1998 and 2008 at least 1,060 new species were discovered in the island of New Guinea. Other species of flora and fauna may be lost before scientists have had a chance to examine them. In other words, innumerable species may become extinct even before they are 'discovered'. This is one of the world's last tropical wildernesses but it is under increasing threat from industrial-scale logging, forest conversion for oil palm plantations, mining, built roads, population growth, agricultural encroachment, invasive species, climate change. Dense rainforests in the interior are believed to support at least 21,000 plant species. It is estimated that a single square kilometre of lowland rainforest may contain as many as 150 species of birds. Reefs around New Guinea have the most species of coral and reef fish in the world, but are under increasing pressure from unsustainable fisheries. As tree lines advance upward, and the frequency of fires increase due to rising temperatures, species confined to the top of mountains face extinction.
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