Madagascar’s geographic isolation and varied forest types have spawned a biological wonderland, home to thousands of endemic animals and plants that, like the lemurs, are facing pressure from ...

Lemurs can also become prey for large snakes, birds, humans and animals humans have introduced to Madagascar, such as domestic cats. A fossa crouching on a tree branch. (Image credit: Chris ...

More than 90% of Madagascar’s lemurs “are on the verge of extinction,” says one of the country’s leading scientists. It is a grim prediction for the cute primates, which are only found on ...

The ring-tailed lemur, one of Madagascar's identifying species, has decreased and fragmented in population size more than 95 percent since 2000, when lemur counts exceeded 750,000.

SAMBAVA, Madagascar — One of the best places on Earth to study the natural world has been Madagascar. Seventy percent of its species are found nowhere else — the largest concentration o… ...

Madagascar is also the only place in the entire world where lemurs, a group of primates, are naturally found. It's home to more than 100 species of lemurs.. Due to ongoing threats of disaster ...

In what is being deemed as the ‘biggest wildlife trafficking operation’ ever, by the Madagascar and Thailand governments, approximately 1,000 highly endangered lemurs and tortoises are finally ...

The objective of my trip to Madagascar was to spot lemurs in their native habitat and I was fortunate to spot almost 20 species in the most prominent reserves. And the ten-day lemur trail was ...

Conservationists in Madagascar are working with local communities to reduce forest fires and preserve the country's iconic lemur species. Madagascar is the only country with a native lemur ...

After all, I had swung halfway around the globe to view lemurs in Madagascar, the only place on Earth where the primitive primates are native, live in the wild (112 species at last count), and ...

More than 90% of Madagascar’s lemurs “are on the verge of extinction,” says one of the country’s leading scientists. It is a grim prediction for the cute primates, which are only found on ...

After all, I had swung halfway around the globe to view lemurs in Madagascar, the only place on Earth where the primitive primates are native, live in the wild (112 species at last count), and ...