December 14, 2011,
HANOI (dpa) - The six-country Mekong River region is so biologically rich that an average of one new species is discovered there every other day, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Monday.
A snub-nosed, Elvis-coiffed monkey; a self-cloning, all-female lizard and five carnivorous plants are among the 208 new species discovered by scientists last year, the WWF said.
The conservation group called the region along South-East Asia's longest waterway as ''one of the last frontiers for new species discoveries on our planet'' while also warning of its fragility and calling on Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China to protect their biodiversity.
A snub-nosed, Elvis-coiffed monkey; a self-cloning, all-female lizard and five carnivorous plants are among the 208 new species discovered by scientists last year, the WWF said.
The conservation group called the region along South-East Asia's longest waterway as ''one of the last frontiers for new species discoveries on our planet'' while also warning of its fragility and calling on Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China to protect their biodiversity.
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