Discovery of over Two Hundred New Species, Including Ghost Monkeys

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has linked 224 new species in the lesser Mekong region. The conservation group has published a list of these species. The list also includes ghost monkeys with white circles around the eyes, frogs, reptiles, and a species that survives only on bamboo juice.

The lesser Mekong region is made up of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The WWF report says some of the world’s most exposed species are on the verge of extermination in the region before being linked.

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• Publicizing the discovery of the new species, K Yogananda, leader of the WWF’s Wildlife and Wildlife Crime Control Team in the lesser Mekong region, said” These species are remarkable, beautiful results from millions of times of elaboration.” Numerous of these are getting defunct before they’re linked.

• According to the WWF, these creatures are at threat of extermination from the biodiversity-rich regions of Southeast Asia because of niche destruction, the onset of complaints through humans, and the illegal trade in wildlife.

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