Title
Letter: Saving the saola from extinction
Author(s)
Tilker, Andrew;Long, Barney;Gray, Thomas N. E.;Robichaud, William;Van Ngoc, Thinh;Vu Linh, Nguyen;Holland, Jeff;Shurter, Stephen;Comizzoli, Pierre;Thomas, Patrick;Ratajszczak, Radoslaw;Burton, James
Published
2017
Publisher
Science
Abstract
The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)—a
primitive wild cattle species (1) endemic
to the Annamite mountain range of Vietnam and Lao People’s Democratic
Republic (PDR)—was first discovered in
1992 (2, 3). Twenty-five years later, it is
on the verge of extinction (4). Although
precise population estimates are not possible,
the Saola Working Group, part of
the Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group of
the IUCN Species Survival Commission,
estimated in 2015 that fewer than 100
saola survive (5).
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