Madagascar's Wildlife In Danger (VIDEO)

Madagascar has one of the most unique and diverse ecosystems - and is the only place that lemurs live in the wild. Sadly, it has lost nearly 90% of its biodiversity... and now, thanks to political instability, the country is losing its ecotourists as well. This video says it all.

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[izmunuti]

A crime that humanity let happen. Oops 90% gone. Tomorrow oops 95% gone... 99% gone......?
Where is the leadership?

[anticapitalist1983]

http://www.all-creatures.org/quotes/beston_henry.html

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."

cheers!

[Progressiveama]

That is heartbreaking. I wish I had money to help.

[tabatha]

A friend of mine spent 2 weeks there last year. It's a wildlife paradise, still unspoiled. The birds, animals, flora are amazing.

These developments are so tragic.

[jmlm]

Long live lemurs!

[PWM]

Sad