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  Amazing Species: Red Panda

  The Red Panda, Ailurus fulgens, is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. The taxonomic position of the Red Panda has sparked significant debate, but it is now assigned to a family of its own – Ailuridae. Red Pandas have no close living relatives, and their nearest fossil ancestors, Parailurus, lived 3-4 million years ago. This arboreal mammal has a scattered distribution across the Himalayas and mountainous regions of northern Myanmar and southern China.

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  Bangladesh: dolphins get new protected area

  The Government of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Forest Department has declared the creation of three new wildlife sanctuaries along the Ganges River and Irrawaddy River for the last two remaining species of freshwater dolphins found in Asia: the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica) and the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris).

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  Focus on Biodiversity: Red Panda

  The Red Panda, Ailurus fulgens, is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. The taxonomic position of the Red Panda has sparked significant debate, but it is now assigned to a family of its own – Ailuridae. Red Pandas have no close living relatives, and their nearest fossil ancestors, Parailurus, lived 3-4 million years ago. This arboreal mammal has a scattered distribution across the Himalayas and mountainous regions of northern Myanmar and southern China.

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  The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in the Eastern Himalaya

  Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in the Eastern Himalaya region is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of this diversity, and the ecosystem requirements of biodiversity are frequently not considered in the development planning process.

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