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This rare primate will not survive deforestation

Modelling suggests that tree cutting is a greater threat to the Milne-Edwards’s sifaka than are climate extremes.
Milne-edward's sifaka lemur (Propithecus diadema edwardsi) infant head portrait.

The Milne-Edwards’s sifaka, a lemur-like resident of Madagascar, faces less of a threat from extreme climate events than from tree-cutting. Credit: Alamy

An endangered lemur species that lives in Madagascar’s rainforest could vanish within 25 years if deforestation on the island isn’t reduced1.

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Nature 610, 234 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03116-6

References

  1. Zhang, L. et al. Biol. Conserv. 274, 109716 (2022).

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