The rugged Annamite Mountains, which stretch across Laos, Vietnam and northeast Cambodia, are renowned for their rich biodiversity. Nestled in the southwest of the range lies Virachey, Cambodia’s largest national park.
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The remote region is vast, covering more than 3,000 square kilometers, yet despite it being a protected area, it is largely unexplored and understudied. The first comprehensive biodiversity survey of the park was published on Tuesday, revealing the rare and threatened species that live there, including the Sunda pangolin, the clouded leopard and the sun bear.
Led by conservation organization Fauna & Flora, which describes the Annamites as the “Amazon of Asia,” the survey also documented nine species that have never been recorded in Cambodia before, such as the critically endangered large-antlered muntjac, Sokolov’s glass lizard and the Vietnamese leaf-toed gecko.
In full: https://edition.cnn.com/science/cambodia-biodiversity-rare-species-c2e-spc/index.html
