Vietnam’s new species

This really won’t be so surprising to American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War:

"Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Wednesday."

So much of the country was/is rural and remote from cities and cultivation. My own old area of operations in Quang Nam province is now an elephant reserve, though I don’t recall seeing any elephants when I was there in 1969.