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Article: New species discovered in Vietnam
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2007
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Scientists have discovered 11 new species
of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies
and five orchid varieties, the World Wide Fund for Nature said
Wednesday.
The new species were found in a remote region known as the "Green
Corridor" in Thua Thien Hue province in central Vietnam, the
international conservation group said.
"You only discover so many new species in very special places,
and the Green Corridor is one of them," Chris Dickinson, the WWF's
chief technical adviser in the region, said in a statement.
The new snake species, the white-lipped keelback, generally lives
near streams and eats frogs and other small animals, the WWF said.
It ...