WWF: Himalayas Under Danger
10.08.2009 Republic
] [The World Natural Life Protection Foundation reported that in Nepal, China, India, Butan and Myanmar, in the east of Himalayas, which was discovered from 350 new species, among the last 10 years.
[[T]]In the report published today by the World Natural Life Protection Foundation (WWF), the symptoms faced with pressures caused by the unustainable development of the natural environment of the region, climate change, tahribi of forests, excessive grazing, leakage hunting and the trade of wildlife were marked to threaten the region, one of the most richest places in the world biologically. [ [WWF stated that in the report "Easter Himalayas- Earth's Disputed Place" in the last half century the South Asia's growing population and the result of the raw material demand faced with a pressure wave, by drawing the golden of the region, only in 25 percent of the natural life has not been tilted, which showed that the species specific to the region are located under the threat of 163.
The red-footed tree frog, known as "flying frog" among the years of 1998-2008 in the region, was discovered in the world's smallest deer and the first new makak mine discovered in the last century, WWF, which is discovered by 353 new species, resembles a giant worm between such species and living in the underground, ampfibyen stressed that "caecilian" is important, as the species of caecilians were exhausted.
WWF, in the region also draws the golden of the new plant species discovered in the same period.
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