Greater bamboo lemurs are found only on the island of Madagascar. With less than 200 individuals left in the wild, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature International Union for the ...

Madagascar’s greater bamboo lemur has been removed from the list of the world’s 25 most endangered primates after conservationists discovered previously unknown populations of the rare ...

The greater bamboo lemur was on the brink of extinction — until Maholy Ravaloharimanitra. Through years of relentless dedication, community conservation, ...

"The greater bamboo lemur is a unique species and the only member of an entire primate genus, making it probably the most endangered primate genus in the world, so this discovery is a real ...

Lemurs are endemic to Madagascar. The greater bamboo lemur once lived all over the island, fossil records show, but years of slash-and-burn agriculture and deforestation have decimated the population.

The Greater Bamboo Lemur is extremely rare, now found patchily distributed in only a small area of south-eastern Madagascar around Ranomafana and Kianjavato. It was previously much more widespread, ...

The greater bamboo lemur once lived all over Madagascar, fossil records show, but years of slash-and-burn agriculture and deforestation have decimated the population.

Madagascar's Cat-sized greater bamboo lemurs are considered one of the most endangered primate species on Earth. They almost exclusively eat a single species of bamboo, including the woody trunk ...

“The greater bamboo lemur eats a food source that is fairly resilient,” Patricia Wright, a primatologist at Stony Brook University and coauthor of the new study, told PBS NewsHour.

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Photogenic, sure-­footed lemurs exist only one place in the world — Madagascar.Who knew? This is one of the things we learn in the breezily enchanting IMAX 3-D documentary “Island o… ...

The island's rich biodiversity is increasingly threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture and climate change. A leading example is the greater bamboo lemur, whose numbers have dwindled due to a ...