Eleven New Animal, Plant Species Found In Vietnam

[Nomad559]

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Eleven new animal and plant species have been discovered in a remote area of central Vietnam, conservation group WWF announced Wednesday.

Scientists have found a snake, five orchids, two butterflies and three other plants new to science and exclusive to tropical forests in the Annamites Mountain Range, known as the Green Corridor, in Thua Thien Hue Province, WWF said in a press release.

The new snake, the white-lipped keelback, tends to live by streams where it feeds on frogs and other small animals, the WWF said, adding it can reach 80 centimetres (31 inches) in length and has a distinctive yellow-white stripe along its head and red dots covering its body.

"Discoveries of so many new species are rare and occur only in very special places like the Green Corridor," said Chris Dickinson, WWF's chief conservation scientist there.

[Annces]

1. Somehow I think it does not bode

well for the plants to have even been discovered. We are busy making species go extinct where we are developing.

[MasonJar]

2. Thank God for some good news!!!!!!!!!!! That is just wonderful. Now if we could just protect the

Amazon Rainforest, there is no number on the new species we might discover. However, we the USA's massive pollution damaging the atmosphere the Forest cannot, according to scientists, survive a third year of drought. It is in its second year now.