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A CRUEL IRONY<\/span>\u00a0hangs over Madagascar, a massive island about 250 miles off the east coast of Africa. In this wonderland of biodiversity and bucket-list destination for travelers, the very thing that has defined it\u2014isolation\u2014could be its undoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nearly the size of Texas, and split off from the\u00a0African<\/a>\u00a0mainland some 180 million years ago, this Indian Ocean island is a world apart. It\u2019s the only place on the planet to find\u00a0lemurs<\/a>\u00a0in the wild, and 90 percent of its plants and animals are endemic.<\/p>\n

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In mid-March, Patricia Wright was in Madagascar, where the renowned primatologist travels six times a year, to oversee the transfer of a dozen greater bamboo lemurs from a rice field into the rain forest. Village farmers had grown agitated over the critically endangered creature eating their crop.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Source : https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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