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Amazing Endemics of the Annamites: Endangered by Wildlife Trade
Straddling the Laos-Viet Nam border, the transboundary Annamite Mountain range - with its forested valleys, limestone karst hills and vertiginous mountains - is a hot spot for endemism in Southeast Asia.
Many mammals that are found nowhere else on earth have been only recently described by science, including the saola, large-antlered muntjac and Annamite striped rabbit.
© Leibniz-IZW / WWF-Viet Nam / Song Thanh Nature Reserve
© Tam Le Viet / WWF-Greater Mekong
© IZW / WWF / Xe Sap National Protected Area
© Christy Williams
© Stewart Chapman
© Leibniz-IZW / FFI / Pu Mat National Park
© Parinya Pawangkhanant
© Adam G. Stern / Wikimedia Commons
But these species are under threat.
Habitat is being lost and degraded, and hunting pressure from snares is decimating populations of ground-dwelling animals. The illegal trade in wildlife as meat, medicine and pets is pushing many species closer to extinction.
Read the report.© Adam Oswell
Amazing Endemics of the Annamites: Endangered by Wildlife Trade