NEPAL: Flying Frog, Smallest Deer Among Array of New Himalayan Species
Monday, August 10th, 2009
FROM BLOOMBERG.COM Aug. 10: A flying frog, the world’s smallest deer and a green viper feature among 353 new species found in a decade of research into the eastern Himalayas. The discoveries from 1998 to 2008 put the region on par with the Indonesian island of Borneo as a “biological hotspot,” the WWF International said today in a report titled the Eastern Himalayas: Where Worlds Collide. The findings show the importance of protecting the area, which spans northern Myanmar and India,
