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9-11-2009 11:07 PM
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celestialdancer says:
"The villagers first encountered westerners in the 1950s but were still cut off from television and the cash economy; elders could recall a childhood of stone tools and the arrival of the first metal axe in the village. With the help of a translator (the local language, Kasua, is spoken by fewer than 1,000 people),"
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9-11-2009 11:19 PM
lollipop10
There's people in there too?!
9-12-2009 5:06 AM
celestialdancer
Lollipop this is what the article says,

He and a researcher first flew by helicopter to the nearest village,
Fogomaya, 15 miles or a four-day trek from the crater. The villagers
first encountered westerners in the 1950s but were still cut off from
television and the cash economy; elders could recall a childhood of
stone tools and the arrival of the first metal axe in the village. With
the help of a translator (the local language, Kasua, is spoken by fewer
than 1,000 people), Greenwood asked tribal elders permission to explore
the volcano...

The Kasua hunters had some knowledge of the crater – although even they
judged it too inaccessible to visit regularly – and they h...
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9-12-2009 12:38 PM
lollipop10
oh i see, Celestialdancer, must be the people that live around there. I have reservations about them exploring this place, but oh so cool!
9-12-2009 4:20 PM
celestialdancer
Me too! Best leave it alone.

It seems from reading Arkive (BBC Earth in cahoots with Sir David Attenborough) that there is a race amidst biologists etc to document as many species as they possibly can for the posterity of the future generations. I think it is also an effort to somehow protect more species from disappearing at the rates they have been.
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