May 30, 2012 · With its long horns and white facial markings the animal could be mistaken for an antelope from North Africa, but the scientists who first saw trophies in a hunter’s house in the Vu Quang Nature reserve in 1992, were certain they had stumbled onto a new species.

May 31, 2012 · Hours later, back at the park, I dutifully drink the potion again before setting out with the forest guards to explore Vu Quang. We pause at a temple on the edge of the forest and light some incense. I inspect my foot and ankles, now nearly back to their normal size. The park’s driver announces that his backache is gone.

The death of one of Vietnam’s few-remaining saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis; also known as Vu Quang ox) was confirmed last month when police from Hien District in northern Quang Nam province uncovered fresh saola meat being consumed in A’ Tep village, Bhalle commune, in the far north of the province. Only discovered by scientists in 1992 ...

Nov 12, 2013 · The saola was discovered in 1992 by a joint team from Vietnam’s Ministry of Forestry (now called Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) and WWF surveying the forests of Vu Quang, near Vietnam's border with Laos.

Aug 30, 2013 · The Saola’s Battle for Survival on the Ho Chi Minh Trail With the opening of new roads in and between Vietnam and Laos, opportunistic hunters and loggers are moving into treacherous terrain where leeches, horse flies and deadly diseases used to keep outsiders at bay.

Discovered in May 1992, during a joint survey carried out by the Ministry of Forestry of Vietnam and WWF in the Vu Quang Nature Reserve (north-central Vietnam), the species remains almost as elusive today.

May 24, 2012 · A cousin of cattle but recalling an antelope in appearance, the saola was discovered in 1992 by a joint team from Vietnam’s Ministry of Forestry and WWF surveying the forests of Vu Quang, near Vietnam's border with Laos.

Jan 24, 2014 · The saola, one of the rarest and most threatened mammals on the planet, has been photographed in Vietnam for the first time in the 21st century. The enigmatic species was caught on film in September by a camera trap set by WWF and the Vietnamese government’s Forest Protection Department in Quang Nam province in the Central Annamite mountains.

The saola, a five to eight million year old member of the bovid family, was discovered in May1992, during a joint survey carried out by the Ministry of Forestry (MOF) and WWF in the Vu Quang Nature Reserve near the Lao border in north-central Vietnam.

The saola, a relative of the cow first discovered by scientists in 1992 in the Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and Lao PDR, is facing the most difficult and dangerous decade in its eight-million-year existence.