LiveScience: Lemurs have captured the public imagination in movies such as “Madagascar,” but now these adorable primates are on the brink of extinction, conservationists say.
Nineteen lemur conservationists and researchers published a call-for-action to save Madagascar’s 101 lemur species from the threats of deforestation and poaching stemming from the country’s political woes.
“Since the 2009 political crisis, the situation on the ground has been grim for the Malagasy people, but also for the lemurs, especially…