Comments on "Gold Rush in the Jungle" - The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam's "Lost World" by Dan Drollette
During the War in Vietnam, or the American War, or the Second Indochina War, hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs and over 12 million gallons of herbicides destroyed over 850 square miles of forest.
The destruction in Vietnam, although enormous, was concentrated in selected areas of the country's 127,240 square miles of total area. There were many remarkable places where native wildlife flourished; including 63 new species of vertebrates, up to and over 200 pounds, that were unknown to science before 1992.
But, finally, came peace, developement, and "prosperity", as well as, extinction.
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