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Hours of scuba diving and sending cameras thousands of metres down will help the government to preserve biodiversity. Cutting edge tech and local knowledge are helping a group of scientists in Papua New Guinea survey the country’s highly biodiverse ocean ecosystems. They are hoping it will provide the government with data to improve conservation efforts.
Papua New Guinea lies in the coral triangle, one of the most biologically diverse places in our oceans. It is home to more than 2,000 species of fish - some of which are found nowhere else on Earth. 600 hard coral species can be found here with the greatest concentration of clownfish diversity anywhere in the world.
