"We were also asked to deposit type specimens of three new species into the Natural History Museum in London as they had none, which was quite exciting."
"We'll generally get up around 6am, get organised and we will walk a lot, around 15km through rainforest and on the sides,"he said.
"The biggest problem dealing with climate change is you can't work out what you've got to protect until you know what there is that needs protecting,"he said.
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