The planet's rarest mammal rediscovered in Vietnam
One of the rarest and most threatened mammals on the planet, the veal Saolo â€" also known as boi-de-vu-Quang â€" was seen in Vietnam for the first time in 15 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).The saola was "caught" in a surveillance camera in September, in a forest in Central Vietnam, renewing hope in the recovery of a species that is considered very close to extinction."It's a fantastic discovery and renews the hope to recover the species" explained to the Guardian Ngoc Van Thinh, director of WWF in that country. The Vietnamese call the saola "polite animal", because it moves silently in the forest.The animal was first discovered, in remote mountains between Vietnam and Laos, in 1992, when a team from WWF and Vietnamese forestry agency found a skull with horns unusual at the home of a hunter. This was, incidentally, the largest discovery of a new mammal in 50 years.In Vietnam, the saola was last seen in 1998. The WWF has recruited Rangers in local communities to ward off poachers and snares placed for reaching other animals, such as deer, but eventually hunt saola.More than 20 years after the discovery of the first saola, very little is known about the species. And there's no record of how many individuals exist â€" maybe a few dozens or, perhaps, a hundred, according to the WWF. All in the dense forests of Vietnam.
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