Madagascar Environment Threatened By Potential Civil War
The park’s site indicates a strong concern for the fragile lemur population because illegal logging may encroach upon their habitat and cause stress which could further hasten the decline of the animal. Lemurs play a central role in the health of the rainforests. They consume fruit and the fruit seeds and then disperse the seeds in many places which spreads the plants throughout the rainforests. Lemurs may be the top seed dispersers in Madagascar.
The nation is the fourth largest island in the world, and is home to about 5% of the world’s
plant and animal species. At first glance that may seem like a small number, but it represents a huge biodiversity: Madagascar has 12,000 flowering plant species. A new presidential election has been set for October of 2010.
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[...] the species has a low birth rate. Compounding matters, political turmoil has disrupted normal operations at one of the sites where they live. The Marojejy park has closed [...]