
FLORA and FAUNA
West Papua is home to an amazingly diverse flora and fauna. The immense variety
is determined by the sheer variety of ecosystems present: from shallow
coral reefs, through coastal swamps, altitudinally differing rainforest and
heigths rising to alpine glaciers.
The alpine high country is permanently covered with ice and snow and the
tallest peak, Puncak Jaya, stands at 5,030 metres. Nothing grows at all until you descend...