cathemang uhrc VIENTIANE, March 9 (Vientiane Times/ANN): Some 36 endangered wildlife species, identified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, have been recorded in the Nakai-Nam Theun National Park in central Laos.
The park’s Executive Director, Savanh Chanthakoummane, told Vientiane Times last week that scientists who have been studying wildlife species acknowledge they have been unable to find these species anywhere elsewhere in the world.
In 2020, the Association Anoulak in cooperation with park authorities set up a second large-scale camera-trap wildlife monitoring programme in the national park.
From February to August 2020, the three biodiversity priority zones were surveyed with 133 camera-trap stations spaced roughly 2.5 kilometres apart. Two cameras were installed at each station. In total, 265 cameras were set up of which 255 were operational, according to the association’s annual report for 202