THE fast-breaking ritual turned into a celebration. Ary P. Keim and Y. Purwanto, two researchers of LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) each made a brief speech. Pak Beccari (Odoard Beccari, an Italian botanist), we have done your 131-year homework, said Ary before his five colleagues.

This little party took place at a village in Serui, Yapen Island, Papua, October 6, 2006. The combined expedition team of the Indonesian Biological Diversity Fo