{"id":25286,"date":"2018-12-12T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25286"},"modified":"2018-12-12T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T18:22:31","slug":"157-new-species-discovered-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25286","title":{"rendered":"157 new species discovered in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A bat which looks like *NSYNC&#8217;s Lance Bass, a gibbon named for Luke Skywalker, and a toad which seems to have come &#8220;from Middle Earth,&#8221; are among 157 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong Region last year, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/greatermekong.panda.org\/discovering_the_greater_mekong\/species\/new_species\/new_species_on_the_block\/\" target=\"_blank\">new report<\/a> from the World Wildlife Fund. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Three mammal, 23 fish, 14 amphibian, 26 reptile and 91 plant species were found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, in some of the region&#8217;s most impenetrable terrain, such as remote mountainous and dense jungle areas, as well as isolated rivers and grassland. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">However, experts warned that many more undiscovered species will be lost due to deforestation, climate change, poaching and the illegal wildlife trade. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A bat which looks like *NSYNC&#8217;s Lance Bass, a gibbon named for Luke Skywalker, and a toad which seems to have come &#8220;from Middle Earth,&#8221; are among 157 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong Region last year, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund. Three mammal, 23 fish, 14 amphibian, 26&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}