Britain has authorized the export of thousands of guns to Madagascar, according to TanaNews.com, sparking concerns that the firearms could be used for hunting endangered lemurs.
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January 27, 2013 by Mongabay.com | No comments
UK authorizes guns for Madagascar despite threat of lemur extinctions
January 27, 2013 by Mongabay.com | No comments
UK authorizes guns for Madagascar despite threat of lemur extinctions
Britain has authorized the export of thousands of guns to Madagascar, according to TanaNews.com, sparking concerns that the firearms could be used for hunting endangered lemurs.
December 12, 2012 by Mongabay.com | No comments
Replacing lemur meat with insect protein in Madagascar
Poaching is a major threat to endangered lemurs in some parts of Madagascar, but a group has come up with an innovative solution to the problem: replace lemur meat with silkworm pupae, a byproduct of silk production.
October 15, 2012 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
The world’s 25 most endangered primates: nearly a quarter in Madagascar
A coalition of conservation groups released the biannual Top 25 Primates list today, including nine species not appearing on the 2010 list, at the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad, India. Madagascar tops the list as home to
January 09, 2012 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
How lemurs fight climate change
Kara Moses may have never become a biologist if not for a coin toss. The coin, which came up heads and decided Moses' direction in college, has led her on a sinuous path from studying lemurs in captivity to environmental
December 16, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
Cultural shifts in Madagascar drive lemur-killing
Conservationists have often found that some cultural norms, religious beliefs, and taboos play a role in holding back traditional peoples from overusing their environment. Examples of such beliefs include days wherein one cannot hunt or fish, or certai...
May 23, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
Photos: the top ten new species discovered in 2010
If we had to characterize our understanding of life on Earth as either ignorant or knowledgeable, the former would be most correct. In 250 years of rigorous taxonomic work researchers have cataloged nearly two million species, however scientists estima...
February 17, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
Saving Madagascar’s largest carnivorous mammal: the fossa
Madagascar is a land of wonders: dancing lemurs, thumbnail-sized chameleons, the long-fingered aye-aye, great baobab trees, and the mighty fossa. Wait—what? What's a fossa? It's true that when people think of Madagascar rarely do they think of its to...
January 03, 2011 by Mongabay.com | No comments
Lemur poaching continues in Madagascar [warning: graphic pictures]
A lemur poacher was intercepted with 32 dead lemurs on New Year's Eve in Madagascar's northeastern town of Vohemar, suggesting that killing of lemurs for the commercial bushmeat trade continues on the island nation, reports Fanamby, a Madagascar-based ...
January 03, 2011 by Mongabay.com | No comments
Lemur poaching continues in Madagascar [warning: graphic pictures]
A lemur poacher was intercepted with 32 dead lemurs on New Year's Eve in Madagascar's northeastern town of Vohemar, suggesting that killing of lemurs for the commercial bushmeat trade continues on the island nation, reports Fanamby, a Madagascar-based ...
