Popa Langur, Asian caper, cave fish: the whole truth about the 224 species discovered in the Mekong

    WWF identified more than 2020 new species in the Mekong region in 224, the updated report is now available

    The news of the identification of 224 new species in the Mekong region is going around the web, but the discovery was actually made in 2020. What is really new is the update of the report, which has only now become available





    The Mekong region, which extends into Southeast Asia in the territories of Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, is an area very rich in terms of biodiversity and in fact only in this area still so unexplored and fortunately little subject to human activity, the researchers have identified since 1997 over 3000 species.

    And the WWF report that was published recently due to delays last year only confirms the prosperity and luxuriance of the Mekong region. In 2020 the World Wildlife Fund discovered 1 mammal, 35 reptiles, 17 amphibians, 16 fish and 155 new plants, for a total of 224 new species. 

    Among these are a new Asian caper flower, a cave fish, an iridescent snake and a funny primacy. ll new mammal of the Mekong is the Trachypithecus popa, a monkey of the Popa Langur species which has been given the name of a volcano in the former Burma - now Myanmar -, Mount Popa, having in these areas their largest population of about 100 specimens.

    Popa Langur, Asian caper, cave fish: the whole truth about the 224 species discovered in the Mekong

    @WWF Greater Mekong

    What is most surprising is that, unlike other species,  researchers attested to its existence by comparing bones found in Myanmar's forests with those exhibited at the Natural History Museum of London and these coincided perfectly, showing that the monkeys sighted in Myanmar were those believed to have existed for a long time. The primacy Trachypithecus popa was immediately included in the list of endangered species, today there would be no more than 200-250 of them.

    Source: WWF

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