VIENTIANE/BERLIN (dpa): Researchers working in the Mekong region in South-East Asia discovered more than 230 as yet unrecorded vertebrate and plant species over the past year, according to a new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Hundreds of scientists working in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam have found 173 vascular plants, 26 reptiles, 17 amphibia, 15 fish species and three mammals. The new finds bring to 3,623 the species discovered along the huge river since 1997.
