Conserving lemurs

Description

Conserving lemurs involves implementing targeted habitat protection, anti-poaching enforcement, and community-based management to address threats such as deforestation, hunting, and illegal trade. The strategy prioritizes establishing and maintaining protected areas, restoring degraded forests, and promoting sustainable livelihoods for local populations. These actions aim to stabilize and increase lemur populations, safeguard biodiversity, and ensure the long-term survival of these critically endangered primates in their native ecosystems.

Context

On Madagascar, 6 genera and at least 14 species of lemurs have already become extinct and, unless rapid action is taken, many others could disappear within the next few decades.