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...signaled to our traveling party silently, and we crept off the narrow path and through the thick tropical forest, hoping for a closer look. Russell Mittermeier, the president of Conservation International (CI) and a renowned primatologist, made the call. Tucked inside a hollow tree trunk were two greater bamboo lemurs, each the length of a forearm, staring back at us with orange eyes. We grabbed our cameras and began snapping. It was a rare sight - too rare, with only around 150 individuals estimated to still be alive. "You're looking at the most endangered primate on the planet," said Mittermeier...
...critically endangered greater bamboo lemur, however, is far from alone. Thanks to deforestation, expanding human settlements, hunting and the slow burn of climate change, more mammals may be endangered today than ever before. According to a worldwide assessment overseen by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and published Oct. 6 in Science, an estimated one out of four mammals is threatened with extinction. The populations of about half the 5,487 known species of mammals in the world, on land and in the water, are dwindling each year. "Our results paint a bleak picture of the global...
...eroded wastelands, capable of supporting few animals or people. Though the rate of deforestation has been reduced sharply in recent years, thanks in part to a greener government, Madagascar's protected areas are still threatened by new mining projects and simple human population growth. Mammals like the greater bamboo lemur are highly sensitive to their environment; if we lose the small stretch of forests in the southeastern reaches of Madagascar that this animal calls home, there is nowhere else it can go. It will be lost. That story is being repeated throughout much of the world, where mammals like...
...entertain the crowds. But early on Sept. 2, the atmosphere took a sudden turn when a deadly street battle erupted between the PAD and a counter-protest group that supports the embattled Prime Minister. Dozens were injured as mobs attacked each other with whatever weapons were on hand - bamboo sticks, guns, even the odd golf club. At least one protester lost his life in the melee. Later that day, Samak declared a state of emergency, which authorizes the military to assume control of security in the capital and theoretically outlaws any public gathering of more than five people...
...haven't exactly been normal. For three days now, thousands of members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) have occupied Thailand?s halls of power, camping out near the offices of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. In the early morning hours of Aug. 29th, protestors - some armed with bamboo poles, others with sporting gear more often associated with the Scottish highlands - managed to evict hundreds of police offers from the grounds of Government House. After celebrating their victory, the demonstrators snoozed on sleeping mats strewn across once-manicured grounds that usually host foreign dignitaries...