Papua New Guinea Cryptid Research Organization

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A native Papuan - Rex Yapi has founded a cryptozoological group.
His forum currently only has 250 members so, if you're on Facebook, you may wish to sign on and support his endeavours.
Papua New Guinea is one of the best chances we have for discovering unknown creatures or creatures thought to be extinct and, if anyone can sort out the woo-woo rubbish from the solid on-the-ground facts, it's likely to be someone who has lived there all his life.
Just search for "Papua New Guinea Cryptid Research Organization"
He has a profile entry on Linkedin too.
This may be something the FT would like to pick up on?

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I couldn#t find it with that link on FB - actually, is there a link?
 
Analogue Boy said:
sigh. Ok. How much is this going to cost?
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Sorry don't know. I'm active on Linkedin but not Facebook. I only noticed the group because I was idly searching for any cryptozoological findings in Papua New Guinea over the last month and an entry for Mr Yapi's group, dated 1st December, was the first hit in my Safari browser.
I did look Rex Yapi up on Linkedin and he seems legit - seriously into ecology and keen to boost the PNG economy by encouraging tourism to locations made famous by crypotozoology. This might be one for our resident serious cryptozoologists to look into?

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Frideswide said:
I couldn#t find it with that link on FB - actually, is there a link?
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I couldn't find it either but found it from my search engine. Looks like a private page of which 0 posts in the last 28 days. So not very active unfortunately.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1017289448636603/?ref=share

He has a YouTube channel, there are lots of videos but if you scroll down a bit there is more mention of crypto stuff.

https://m.youtube.com/@rexyapi5580/videos

Paul_Exeter said:
Don't worry he isn't a Nigerian prince who needs to transfer $45,000,000 to your account before his death sentence...
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Though I did find a Go Fund Me page looking for 10, 000 US dollars!

Seemingly he saw a ropen in 2007.

https://showmebigfoot.com/rga-png_ryapi/
I saw a flying pterosaur called Ropen here on Umboi Island. My sighting has positioned me to have a passion or craving to do research in all forms of cryptids. Thus, I am the first indigenous cryptid researcher here in Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands region as a whole. Cryptid sounds like a very stupid thing to my people here. Even my government squeezes my papers lobbying for recognition and support. Also my research for the past 12 years in flying pterosaur has been on ad hoc basis with a single camcorder.
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Min Bannister said:
I couldn't find it either but found it from my search engine. Looks like a private page of which 0 posts in the last 28 days. So not very active unfortunately.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1017289448636603/?ref=share

He has a YouTube channel, there are lots of videos but if you scroll down a bit there is more mention of crypto stuff.

https://m.youtube.com/@rexyapi5580/videos


Though I did find a Go Fund Me page looking for 10, 000 US dollars!

Seemingly he saw a ropen in 2007.

https://showmebigfoot.com/rga-png_ryapi/
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Thanks for digging into this a bit Min!
If, as he claims, the locals tend to regard cryptozoology as a bit stupid, it's quite bold of him to stick his head above the parapet and admit to a sighting.
 
Min Bannister said:
I couldn't find it either but found it from my search engine. Looks like a private page of which 0 posts in the last 28 days. So not very active unfortunately.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1017289448636603/?ref=share

He has a YouTube channel, there are lots of videos but if you scroll down a bit there is more mention of crypto stuff.

https://m.youtube.com/@rexyapi5580/videos


Though I did find a Go Fund Me page looking for 10, 000 US dollars!

Seemingly he saw a ropen in 2007.

https://showmebigfoot.com/rga-png_ryapi/
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Ah, I see...

Well give me $10,000 dollars and I'll go and look for the Owlman of Mawnan (bus fare £5.00 but the pasty and cider can set you back)
 
Hope this is legit, back of a fag packet calculation suggests his fundraising target is 7-8 times the average annual PNG salary
 
With his being "seriously into ecology" per his LinkedIn and claiming to have sighted a ropen, he would seem to be someone that would be known to, and possibly previously interviewed by, cryptozoologists who focus on the Papua New Guinea area and/or the ropen. So the question would be "does anyone know this person" in the existing cryptozoological circles?
 
Rex Yapi interviews an elderly Papuan about an alleged pterosaur sighting he had when he was a child.
The old guy refers to the creature, that flew over his village at dusk and perched on a palm tree, as a huge bird, but with a rigid tail with a bioluminescent glow. He elaborated that this was in pre-Christian times and the villagers had a supernatural fear of the creature, which was not any bird they were familiar with and they feared it was an evil spirit sent by an enemy tribe.
The old man called the creature a "Laih-neya" and uses the term enormous bird throughout. It is Rex Yapi who interpreted the sighting as a pterosaur.

 
Yapi is a grifter. He approached the CFZ wanting cameras and drones. We offered to send him some but he refused them as they were not expensive enough. He wanted stuff that was £5000 a pop. He is on the grif for money from westeners. I don't trust him or believe a word he says.
 
lordmongrove said:
Yapi is a grifter. He approached the CFZ wanting cameras and drones. We offered to send him some but he refused them as they were not expensive enough. He wanted stuff that was £5000 a pop. He is on the grif for money from westeners. I don't trust him or believe a word he says.
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Yes, I recall your earlier post on the subject.
That is obviously unfortunate and I can appreciate how it would colour any perception of Mr Yapi's motives.
In an impoverished country, where average wages are around a 10th of the UK's though, I guess you can't blame the guy for asking though and, who knows? As he has the advantage of being born and bred in a cryptozoological hot-spot, he just may turn up something of interest!
 
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blessmycottonsocks said:
Yes, I recall your earlier post on the subject.
That is obviously unfortunate and I can appreciate how it would colour any perception of Mr Yapi's motives.
In an impoverished country, where average wages are around a 10th of the UK's though, I guess you can't blame the guy for asking though and, who knows? As he has the advantage of being born and bred in a cryptozoological hot-spot, he just may turn up something of interest!
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Yes he might, New Guinea is a place i've always wanted to go, mainly for giant crocodiles, giant lizards and thylacines. But he made my conman alarm ring really loud. He also wanted Jon Downes to write him a letter endorsing him to local politicians even though we knew nothing about him.
 
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