Lemurs ‘facing extinction’

“There’s just no government enforcement capacity, so forests are being invaded for timber, and inevitably that brings hunting as well,” said Russ Mittermeier, president of Conservation International.

Scientists and researchers based in the area have talked of how the public in Madagascar are free to cut down as much timber as they want and hunt as many animal species as they want, and they get way with it because there is no government control.

Andry Rajoelina, the current leader of Madagascar has promised elections “as soon as possible” and this offers some hope to conservationists as it would hopefully mean a certain level of forestry control.

However, several scheduled election dates have passed. As of yet nothing has been done by the government to stop the deforestation which has led to 90 per cent of Madagascar’s original forest disappearing and brought many species of animals, not only Lemurs, to the brink of extinction.

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