Madagascar - Can Finding Food Alternatives Save the Endangered | AllAfrica
Madagascar - Can Finding Food Alternatives Save the Endangered Lemur? [RFI] Anthropologists studying endangered lemurs in Madagascar are working with local communities to support the farming of alternative proteins -- as a study shows families hunt on average one lemur per year. Lemurs are small furry primates with long or very short tails and mouse or fox-like faces that occur naturally only in Madagascar, where there are high levels of hunger. There are 107 lemur species still in existence. But 103 of those species are threatened with extinction. Some of those species have only Read More
