More than 15 percent of Madagascar's lemurs are disappearing and experts are searching external funding for protection of Madagascar primates nowadays, said a release on Tuesday from a five-day workshop which started in Antananarivo on Monday.
Three Madagascar's lemurs. (Photo: China.org.cn)
The workshop is organized by Primate Specialist Group and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN/SSC), a network of scientists and conservationists who stand against the tide of extinction which threatens humanity's closest kin.
Resolution of the workshop will be presented at the International Conference of the International Primatological Society (IPS) scheduled next August in Mexico.
The workshop was organized because of insufficiency of financial and technical resources on the protection of Madagascar' s lemurs, lack of research on their lifestyle, their area of choice as well as absence of their exact number, said professor Jonah Ratsimbazafy, chief of staff of the Study and research Group on Madagascar's primates of Madagascar (GERP).
According to statistics from the GERP, Madagascar has 100 species of lemurs but more than 40 percent of them are still unknown.
The statistics showed that more than 15 percent of Madagascar's lemurs are disappearing, while endemic lemurs of Madagascar constitute the 20 percent of the large family of primates recorded in the world.
