Entirely New Species Of Fox Discovered In Borneo - Independent

"Scientists believe they have found a wholly new species of mammal deep in the heart of one of the richest, least studied and most endangered wildlife areas on Earth. The discovery of an apparently new kind of fox in the dense forests of central Borneo is an extremely rare event.

Only a handful of new mammals have been discovered in the whole world over the past 70 years. It comes as hopes are rising that the forests - which are expected to be cut down within the next 15 years - may be saved at the last minute. The Indonesian Government has recently halted logging in an important national park and has begun preparations with the Governments of Malaysia and Brunei to establish a 220,000sq km conservation area.

Borneo - the world's third largest island - has possibly the most diverse wildlife on the globe. By a conservative estimate, it is home to 15,000 species of plant; one 52ha plot alone has 1175 different kinds of tree - a world record. Six thousand of them are found nowhere else, as are about 160 of its fish species, 30 of its birds and 25 of its mammals.

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Conservationists are increasingly anxious about the fate of Borneo, described by Charles Darwin as "one great, wild, untidy, luxuriant hothouse made by nature for herself". Illegal logging is devastating its forests; the World Bank predicts that all of them, outside protected areas, will have been cut down by 2020. But three weeks ago the Indonesian Government stopped logging in the key Betung Kerihun National Park, by closing a nearby border crossing which had been used to take the timber into Sarawak, the Malaysian part of Borneo."

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124806

I love foxes. Probably due to having grown up on the banks of the Fox River...

That fox is still going strong and answers to the name Catherine Deneuve.

THAT would truly be a monumental discovery!!! :wow: