Nature Matters: Tropical island is home to a spectacular environment

By Debbie Bower
Updated December 10 2018 - 11:58am, first published 11:31am
New Guinea does it better: Matschie’s tree-kangaroo is just one of the amazing sights to see across the Torres Strait.
New Guinea does it better: Matschie’s tree-kangaroo is just one of the amazing sights to see across the Torres Strait.

A tropical break this week led me north, across the Torres Strait to New Guinea, the world’s largest tropical island. Adjoined continentally, our sister island shares a land bridge with Australia in times of low sea level. This means the nature is familiar there but also feels like many species from Cape York got a little lost down the rabbit hole.

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