
Threatened species by country
Laos gathers forty-eight threatened species and eight are critically endangered, among them the saola and the Mekong giant catfish. Thirty-four are mammals: five gibbons counting the siamang, two lorises, two macaques, three langurs and two pangolins, both critical. The river contributes the Irrawaddy dolphin and the Siamese fighting fish, and there are only seven birds for a list this size.
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