Na ratunek lemurom z Madagaskaru - Redux

A woman holds out a dried eel swim bladder in a fishing camp just outside of Masoala National Park, in northeast Madagascar, on September 23, 2023. Camps such as these are having both economic and cultural impacts on the nearby village as a growing population increasingly turns to the sea to support themselves. Eel swim bladders are particularly valuable for sale abroad. Considered a delicacy in China, eel swim bladders are also thought to have special medicinal properties for boosting immunity. Hunting of endangered lemurs is one of the largest threats to the animals’ survival, but recent work from National Geographic Explorer Cortni Borgerson is showing that bug farming canÃłand hasÃłsaved lemur lives. In a pilot project in northeast Madagascar, Borgerson and colleagues supplied 100 households living on the edge of the Masoala National Park with bean plants that could easily be planted in disused areas around the edges of homes and between other cropsÃłspecies that were also known to attract local bugs called sakondry, or the bacon bug. This work has increased urgency as Masoala, a UNESCO world heritage forest, faces growing threats from illegal trafficking of precious woods, land clearing for cash and food crops, and the exploitation of marine resources for international markets.