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DPA
Hanoi - 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.
'While the 2010 discoveries are new to science, many are already destined for the dinner table, struggling to survive in shrinking habitats and at risk of extinction,' said Stuart Chapman, the WWF's conservation director for the Mekong region.
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vietnmese people eat worse than animals themselves. They do not care if they extinct some wild animal species. Many Khmers now start to eat and kill animals the way vitnamese do. We have learned so much evil deeds from the vitnamese now a day in Cambodia.
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