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Over the past four years, a study found more than 10,000 lemurs were sold for pricey dishes across 17 cities in Madagascar.

Conservationists in Madagascar are working with local communities to reduce forest fires and preserve the country's iconic lemur species. Madagascar is the only country with a native lemur population, ...

A ring-tailed lemur, which is native to Madagascar, has been found collapsed in freezing conditions on a London common. 10 December 2011 • 8:00am A male ring-tailed lemur named King Julien, who was ...

Endangered lemur species found only in Madagascar are being slaughtered and served up in local restaurants as poachers take advantage of a security vacuum on the island after a coup earlier this year.

Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a tree in ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After the animated lemur King Julien of "Madagascar" captured kids' attentions with his eccentricity, a new film takes them to the real, isolated world of the singing, dancing, ...