mabuensis is for mabu? for mabu, yeah, yeah. 0k.ic species that is from mabu. well, congratulations. thank you. that's brilliant. thank you. as well as leading the expedition, professor bayliss loves a flutter. butterflies is my passion. that's the first group that i started looking at, at the age of seven. i got two there. if you're a butterfly specialist, if you're a butterfly enthusiast, you go searching for special butterflies that may or may not be there, and that gives you that extra energy to go that one step further, and that one step further takes you into a different world of exploration. you make it to the top of the peaks, you make it over the ridge, you make it into the valley bottoms, just to see what's there and what you can find. and you've found quite a few new species here? yes, i have, yeah, yeah. i think we've got about 10, 12 — 10—15, including subspecies. and some of them are around here now? yeah, that sounds like a charaxes in there. let's go and have a look. that is a charaxes. where's it going? it's looping

mabu. mabu forest is quite special for beetles.ed ten species, half of them were new to science. these ones could be a new species, we hope. it's amazing! will proving what lives here in this forest is unique be enough to secure mount mabu's protection? limbui, northern mozambique, familiar territory for professorjulian bayliss. it's nearly 20 years since he first came here, having worked out from satellite images that there could be a hidden rainforest on top of mount mabu. the relative size of the forest compared to what's left in southern africa, i think, was the discovery. not that it was never seen or known by humankind before, because obviously the local people were here and they're hunting in it. what was your reaction at that point? oh, my god, i mean, what have we discovered here? this is this is phenomenal, that we found the largest rainforest forest in southern africa. since then, professor bayliss has been leading expeditions of scientists into mabu, trying to gather evidence to justify the forest�*s protection. there's

mabu. mabu forest is quite special for beetles.ui, northern mozambique, familiar territory for professorjulian bayliss. it�*s nearly 20 years since he first came here, having worked out from satellite images that there

mabu. mabu forest is quite special for beetles.