As a shocked world watches fires ravage the Amazon, slash-and-burn farmers are w...
KIRINDY FOREST, Madagascar - As a shocked world watches fires ravage the Amazon, slash-and-burn farmers are wreaking proportionally worse destruction half a world away in Madagascar, driving humanity’s smallest relative - the Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur - to extinction.
Kirindy is home to a multitude of rare species, including the tiny Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur, the world’s smallest primate, which only exists there. Bug-eyed and weighing just 35 grams , the lemur’s habitat may be completely destroyed in three years, said Volahy, though the animal might go sooner. When a 2016 harvest failed in the south, thousands of farmers migrated to the west - to Kirindy - accelerating the forest’s destruction.
After trees are felled, the area is torched to clear land for maize. Middlemen take the crops to big cities, where the kernels become untraceable, potentially entering the supply chain for big companies.
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