Environmentalists have warned of a mass extinction of lemurs
Environmentalists have warned of a mass extinction of lemurs The lemurs were the most vulnerable primates in the world: 105 of 111 species of these animals are under threat of extinction. To such conclusion participants of the seminar on the conservation of lemur held by the International Union for conservation of nature (IUCN). On the outcome of the seminar told of environmental organization Global Wildlife Conservation. Lemurs are primates belonging to the suborder of wet-nosed, — are found only on Madagascar and the Comoros Islands off the coast of Africa. Scientists still find new species of these rare animals in January of this year, zoologists have described a new species of lemur in Madagascar, called dwarf lemur groves. The newsFound the unluckiest Koala in Australia Environmentalists point out that 105 of the 111 listed in the red data book species of lemur in Madagascar must have a status of “vulnerable”,