Mekong Delta teems with plant and animal life
August 26th, 2009
The Mekong Delta’s Kien Luong limestone system in Kien Giang province has, says WWF, the greatest biodiversity in the world. Since 1997, Vietnamese and foreign scientists have discovered an astonishing 1068 new species of creatures in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, reports the HCM City Tropical Biology Institute. Of this number, there are 519 plants, 279 fish [...]