How the Vietnam War Helped Protect its Wildlife - Dan Drollette

As Vietnam was long known as the epicenter for an ill-advised Cold War proxy fight between democracy and communism, and largely because of that legacy, the country's remotest corners have been avoided by science and tourists alike. Dan Drollette documents in his new book Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam's "Lost World", as biologists are entering places long undisturbed, they are discovering strange new fauna that would be difficult to miss, including a barking deer, and a relative of the Javan rhino.