Monkey-style tuft like Elvis and psychedelic geckos are two of the 208 new species discovered in Mekong River region of Southeast Asia.
Conservation organizations WWF declared the entire species which has been described in the last year is now threatened due to deforestation, habitat loss, climate change, and overdevelopment.
Fear of extinction of these unique animals arose after the discovery of 208 new species of the region's threatened habitat destruction.
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| In this undated photo provided by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), a new psychedelic gecko is seen in Vietnam. It was discovered in Hon Khoai island, Ca Mau province, in southern Vietnam. (Picture from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/) |
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| A lizard with an unusual reproductive strategy. This all-female species reproduces by cloning, a fact that researches believe may put it at risk, due to lack of genetic diversity. (L. Lee Grismer/WWF) (Picture from: http://www.cbc.ca/) |
A number of new species were described, including psychedelic geckos that have a unique color pattern of southern Vietnam and not-nosed monkey in a remote province in Myanmar who looks like having a large crest on its head.
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| Five new species of carnivorous pitcher plants, including Nepenthes andamana and Nepenthes holdenii, pictured from left, were found living in habitats ranging from sea level to 800 metre-mountain peaks in Thailand and Cambodia. (Marcello Catalano/Francois Mey/WWF) (Picture from: http://www.cbc.ca/) |
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| Boehme's Wolf snake is one of several new reptile discoveries. Large canine-like fangs in the snake's upper and lower jaws give this predator its name. (Vampire/WWF) (Picture from: http://www.cbc.ca/) |
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| Tylontotriton notalis is a new species of spotted salamander found in Laos in 2010, making it the southern-most known member of the Tylontotriton notalis group of salamanders. (Bryan Stuart/WWF) (Picture from: http://www.cbc.ca/) |
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| Seven new frog species from the Greater Mekong region were found in 2010, including Amolops akharum, discovered in the Nam Ha National Protected Area in Laos. (Bryan Stuart/WWF) (Picture from: http://www.cbc.ca/) |
"Even a monkey who has hair like Elvis Presley's style is new to science, local residents have known since ancient Myanmar," WWF said in a report.
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| The Elvis-haired monkey is new to science, but well known to the people of Myanmar. Nicknammed 'Snubby' by researches, the species is hunted in the mountainous Kachin region. (Martin Aveling/Fauna & Flora International/WWF) (Picture from: http://www.cbc.ca/) |
This region is home to several species most endangered in the world, from tigers, Asian elephants, dolphins Mekong, the Mekong giant catfish up. "The area has exceptional biodiversity-rich, but also very fragile," said Sarah Bladen, spokesman for WWF Greater Mekong. "The pace of decline biodiversitasnya, very tragic."
Last October, the WWF announced that the extinct Javan rhinoceros of Vietnam, making 40-60 Javan rhinos in Indonesia as the last of his species. *** [AP | KORAN TEMPO 3735]
