Threats to Lemurs

Lemurs have it tough these days.Lemurs are being threatend by people in Madagascar. They are cutting down the forest. Lemurs habitat are being destroyed. Loggers hunt the primates for food when they stay for weeks on the end in the protectec forest, and also they sell lemurs to local retaurants.

Madagascar, which has been isolated from landmasses for more than 160m years, is the world's fourth largest island and a "conservation hotspot" with thousands of exotic species found only here. These include nearly 100 species of lemur, six of which are deemed critically endangered.