Timor green pigeon nears extinction after decades of inaction, study warns

On April 20, Jafet Potenzo Lopes was surveying the south coast of Manatuto municipality, in Timor-Leste, when he recorded something he had not seen in years: three Timor green pigeons, alive, in a location where the species had never been documented before.

Lopes is one of Timor-Leste’s few field ecologists.

He was born and raised […]