New hope for the survival of this
species
Date: May 22, 2018
Source: Forschungsverbund Berlin
In November 2017 -- under a
biodiversity monitoring and assessment activity supported by the US Agency for
International Development (USAID) -- scientists and conservationists of the
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and WWF-Vietnam
captured photographs of one of the rarest and most threatened mammal species of
Southeast Asia, the large-antlered muntjac (Muntiacus vuquangensis), in Quang
Nam province, central Vietnam. Prior to this milestone, this species had only
been camera trapped in three protected areas in all of Vietnam since the year
2000. The new records from Quang Nam -- which include photographs of both a
male and a female -- provide new hope for the continued survival of a species
that is on the brink of extinction.
"It is amazing news,"
said Phan Tuan, Director of the Forest Protection Department of Quang Nam in
Vietnam "The two individuals are both mature and of reproductive age.
These images prove that the species still survives in Quang Nam province and
give us hope that there might even be a breeding population."
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