Foja Mountains

The mountains rise to 2,193 metres (7,195 ft), and have 3,000 square kilometers of old growth tropical rainforest in the interior part of the range.

The portion of the mountains above 1000 meters elevation is in the Northern New Guinea montane rain forests ecoregion.

[3] The montane forests are dominated by Araucaria cunninghamii, Podocarpus idenburgensis, Agathis labillardieri, Calophyllum, and Palaquium at the 1,200 meter level.

In February 2006, the expedition team released details of new species including: The scientists documented: The human population of the Foja Range is 300, living in the 7,500 square kilometers of low-lying forest.

New types of animals recorded include a frog with a long erectile nose, a large woolly rat, an imperial-pigeon with rust, grey and white plumage, a 25 cm gecko with claws rather than pads on its toes, and a small, 30 cm high, black forest wallaby (a member of the genus Dorcopsis).