{"id":40563,"date":"2014-02-23T01:37:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=39339"},"modified":"2014-02-23T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T06:37:08","slug":"90-lemur-species-approaching-extinction-new-action-plan-devised-international-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/90-lemur-species-approaching-extinction-new-action-plan-devised-international-team\/","title":{"rendered":"90% Of Lemur Species Approaching Extinction — New Action Plan Devised By International Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

True Lemurs, found only on the isolated island of Madagascar, are the most endangered mammalian group on the planet — more than 90% of all known lemur species are rapidly approaching extinction, primarily as the result of deforestation and habitat loss.<\/p>\n

Previous conservation efforts have been generally ineffective, so how do you prevent their extinction? Now, an international team composed of prominent primatologists, conservationists and researchers, think they may have a workable solution. The team has devised an action plan to save the 101 species of lemur<\/a> that live on Madagascar — one which contains “strategies for 30 different priority sites for lemur conservation, and aims to help raise funds for individual projects.”<\/p>\n

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Something to note — ‘true’ lemurs are a clade of primates found only on the island of Madagascar, they are entirely unrelated to any of the animals commonly referred to as ‘lemurs’ that live in South Asia. Those animals aren’t primates, they’re related to rodents. True lemurs are primates that have evolved completely separate from the other clades of primates for the last 65 million years.<\/p>\n