Leonardo DiCaprio Instagram – Attenborough’s Long-beaked Echidna, also known as ‘Payangko’ in the local Tepera language in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains, has been rediscovered. The egg-laying mammal was one of the world’s most wanted lost species and hadn’t had a documented sighting in 62 years, since it was first found. A biodiversity training expedition team led by Indonesian NGO Yayasan Pelayanan Papua Nenda and including students from Cenderwasih University, researchers from Oxford University, Mendel University in Brno, Royal Holloway University in London and Re:wild had searched for the echidna in the Cyclops Mountains for four weeks. On the last day of their ascent of the Cyclops, on the final SD card they collected, there were three images of the echidna waddling through the forest. The support of the customary landowners within the Cyclops Mountains was critical to the success of the expedition, and was generously given by members of Yongsu Sapari, a community on the range’s northern side. Attenborough’s Long-beaked Echidna is the 10th most wanted species to be rediscovered by @rewild’s Search for Lost Species. Photo Credit: Long-beaked Echidna/D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook/Auscape/Minden Pictures In collaboration with: @universitas_cenderawasih, @brin_indonesia, Yayasan Pelayanan Papua Nenda, @oxford_uni, @yappenda_papua #SearchforLostSpecies #LostSpecies