According to the study, almost all lemurs are in danger of extinction. It has a photo of an Atlantic right whale, more than 32,441 species are in danger of extinction
According to the study, almost all lemurs are in danger of extinction. It has an image of an Atlantic right whale, more than 32,441 species are threatened with extinction.
Biodiversity is in danger. Nearly all lemurs are threatened with extinction, 31% of which are critically endangered due to hunting and deforestation in Madagascar, according to the new IUCN Red List, which now has more than 30,000 species of particular concern.
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Approximately 120,372 species now analyzed (over 8 million estimated on the planet), 32,441 endangered species (13,898 vulnerable, 11,732 endangered, and 6,811 critically endangered), including most lemurs, the Atlantic right whale, the great Alsatian hamster or even the caterpillar. fungus valued in traditional Chinese medicine.
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103 of the 107 species of lemurs are in danger of extinction
The Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature is regularly enriched by the evaluation of new species of plants or animals. Complete novelty especially in the assessment of African primates, drawing attention mainly to lemurs, endemic to Madagascar.
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Thus, 103 of the 107 lemur species are endangered, “mainly due to deforestation and hunting”, and 33 of them are critically endangered, the last category before extinction.
Without significant human and financial efforts to conserve it (protected areas, reforestation, ecotourism, etc.), some, like the Sahafari lepilémur, “would undoubtedly be extinct by now,” even notes Russ Mittermeier, an IUCN primate expert. .
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But that hasn’t stopped 13 lemur species from being listed as “critically endangered,” including the sifaka and the cute little lemur, the world’s smallest primate, both victims of habitat destruction by burning and slashing. felling In the rest of Africa, more than half of the primate species (54 out of 103) are threatened, such as the long-haired colobus, which is now critically endangered.
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This shows “that Homo sapiens needs to radically change its relationship with other primates and with nature as a whole,” stressed Grethel Aguilar, acting director general of IUCN, even the congress that was held in Marseille in June was postponed to January 2021 due to covid-19.
Date updated: Jul 10, 2020, 07:58
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