Most of us have heard of the dangers of deforestation but there are other more subtle ways that human beings can endanger monkeys, apes and lemurs.
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Climate change is a huge threat to Madagascar’s four forest types – urgent action is needed to ensure they don’t disappear completely.
A veterinary ophthalmologist explains what’s going on.
Forests around the world will need to shift their ranges to adapt to climate change. But many trees and plants rely on animals to spread their seeds widely, and those partners are declining.
Most of Madagascar’s conservation and research projects are conceptualised and funded from abroad.
About 60 per cent of monkeys, apes, lemurs, lorises and tarsiers are threatened with extinction. Climate change will only make it more difficult for them to survive.
Gray mouse lemurs are more closely related to humans than mice. They also have the ability to hibernate, and researchers are hoping to learn how to transfer that ability to humans.
The conventional view is that Madagascar has no native cats. Yet, cats are plentiful.
Previously undocumented, this tiny extra digit – called a “pseudothumb” – is a structure on each wrist made of bone and cartilage.
New research shows that slowing deforestation is the most essential step for saving Madagascar’s lemurs, and can help protect them against the longer-term threat of climate change.
A recent spate of attacks have left local people scared for their safety in rural Madagascar, threatening vital conservation work in the nearby rainforest.
The fossa, Madagascar’s largest predator, is a cat-like carnivore that eats everything from insects to lemurs. Because they are rare and elusive, scientists know very little about them, including how many there are.
The endangered species list is over 90 000 and includes Madagascar’s lemurs.
As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, there may be dark days ahead for some of the world’s rarest and most beautiful primates.
The island’s latest mining boom threatens a critically endangered lemur – and puts human lives at risk.
Mangrove forests aren’t very hospitable habitats, but these lemurs don’t mind.
More than 90% of Madagascar’s lemurs face extinction. Losing them will mean a loss of the valuable function they serve to the forests in which they live.
Climate change and overfishing have destroyed livelihoods, so many locals have been forced into the forest.
Conservation won’t be successful unless we work with people living at the forest edge.
A new study looking at a long-lived lemur species attributes it to their frequent hibernation-like state. But what lessons can humans learn from this?
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of Conservation Science, Bangor University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Western University
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Professor in Sensory Biology, University of Bristol
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Associate Senior Lecturer, Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
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Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
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PhD candidate, Penn State
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Research fellow, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, University of South Wales
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Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College
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Biological anthropologist, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Conservation Unit (PCU), University of Cape Town
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PhD Candidate in Molecular Biology, Carleton University
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Professor of Biochemistry, Carleton University
