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Political Unrest Leads to Peril for Madagascar's Lemurs
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, lemurs, habitat, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 4 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Madagascar's lemurs are facing a crisis, the result of a perfect storm of factors that have left them perilously close to extinction. Our colleague Robyn Dixon reports on the damage that's been done, and what one Madagascan scientist-turned-spy is doing
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Lemurs Under Threat From Madagascar's 'Timber Mafia'
Animals  (tags: wildlife, News, Madagascar, lemurs, timber sale )

Katie
- 17 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Madagascar, which has been isolated from landmasses for more than 160m years, is the world's fourth largest island and a "conservation hotspot" with thousands of exotic species found only here. These include nearly 100 species of lemur, six ........
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New Population of World's Rarest Lemur Discovered in Madagascar
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, discovery, lemurs, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 56 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A scientific survey has found that the world's rarest lemur, the Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur simus), now exists in more locations than was previously thought.
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Lemurs Slaughtered for Bushmeat
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, lemurs, slaughtered, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 102 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A set of shocking new pictures show a massive upsurge in the illegal hunting of lemurs in Madagascar that threatens the survival of many species, and the international community must act immediately to stop the pillage of the island -
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Endangered Lemurs: Slaughtered, Smoked and Sold to Restaurants
Animals  (tags: animals, lemurs, slaughtered, bushmeat, environment, AnimalWelfare, killing, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 105 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Madagascar is famous for its lemurs. But poachers on the island are hunting and killing the lemurs for about 50 cents each. The endangered lemurs are then smoked and sold as delicacies to restaurant owners who are ordering the "killing of the animals."
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Bushmeat Trade Threatens Madagascar's Rare Lemurs
Animals  (tags: wildlife, lemurs, slaughtered, bushmeat trade, tragedy, black market wildife trading, endangered, extinction, cruelty, humans )

Simone
- 105 days ago - news.stv.tv
Endangered lemur species found only in Madagascar are being slaughtered and served up in local restaurants as poachers take advantage of a security vacuum on the island after a coup earlier this year. Pictures of the blackened remains of scores of
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Lemurs Butchered in Madagascar
Animals  (tags: animals, lemurs, killed, bush meat, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 106 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Shocking pictures of slaughtered lemurs killed for bush meat have been released by Conservation International.
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Pet Lemur Is Just Too Exotic for LITH
Animals  (tags: animals, lemurs, pets, exotics, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 161 days ago - dailyherald.com
As the saying goes, dogs are a man´s best friend. But for Lake in the Hills resident Troy Evert, it's a lemur named Ringo. Lake in the Hills has given Evert 90 days to find another home for Ringo.
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Save the Lemur ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, lemurs, Madagascar, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat )

Cher
- 199 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Since the mid 1980's, mining, logging, and deforestation toward economic development has devastated the habitat of Lemur, and other large and small endangered species of mammel indigenous and unique to Madagascar.
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Cute Ring-Tailed Lemur Baby Being Hand Raised By Franklin Park Zoo Staff
Animals  (tags: animals, lemurs, hand raised, zoos, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 244 days ago - zandavisitor.com
Since the birth of ring-tailed lemur on February 18, the staff at Franklin Park Zoo's Tropical Forest has been busy with an around-the-clock feeding schedule to care for the baby.
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Kecko's Story : Who Is a Lemur, and Why Would One Live in Texas?
Animals  (tags: lemurs, pets, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 252 days ago - friendsofanimals.org
Kecko is a ring-tailed lemur. A lemur is neither ape nor monkey, but a member of a primate species that goes back to the time before monkeys and the (generally larger) apes branched apart. To be added to some 15,000 other primates kept as pets in the US
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Infanticide Patterns in Lemurs
Animals  (tags: lemurs, infanticide, killing, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 269 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The guys were all stressed out. There were new infants in the community, and the guys knew from experience that that's when invaders were likely to come and kill the babies, particularly the male infants. This annual threat was a defining moment in
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Meet Tahina - The Baby Lemur
Animals  (tags: lemurs, baby, captivity, birth, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 273 days ago - news.sky.com
Meet Tahina, a newly born Madagascar lemur, one of only 17 of her type living in captivity worldwide.
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S.F. Zoo Gets Lucky: Baby Aye-Aye Lemur Born! Video!
Animals  (tags: lemurs, zoos, births, rare, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 519 days ago - sfgate.com
It's rough being an endangered aye-aye lemur: It takes 2 to 3 hours to copulate, and if you don't have a good teacher, you may never procreate at all. A pair of the nocturnal creatures from Madagascar got lucky, however. The proof: the baby aye-aye
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Tigerhomes.Org Education Center
Animals  (tags: tigers, lions, lemurs, animals, education, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 568 days ago - tigerhomes.org
Educational information presented here includes an overview of the 5 remaining sub-species of Tigers, numerous Lemur species as well as 2 sub-species of lion. In many cases we provide photos, illustrations and even vocalizations to assist you with
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