Lemurs are at risk. So are the people protecting them.

Mongabay
Dec 6, 2025, 9:16 pm270 ptsTop
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Patricia Wright arrived in Madagascar nearly four decades ago to look for a lemur thought to be extinct. She found it, along with a new species, and then ran headlong into a…

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