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Branson’s plan to save lemurs is turning heads.<\/p>
Branson’s plan to save lemurs is turning heads.<\/p>
If you build Madagascar’s lemurs a new home, will they come? And can you trust them not to trash the place?<\/p>
Sir Richard Branson<\/a>, private moon shot <\/a>funder, Virgin Group<\/a> kingpin, kooky billionaire du jour<\/a>, has been turning heads with his announcement that he plans to import 30 ring-tailed lemurs from zoos to one of his privately owned islands in the British Virgin Islands. The idea is to give endangered or threatened species a new place to live and breed—Madagascar’s civil war has meant a resurgence in lemur habitat loss, and ring-taileds are listed as “near threatened”—but biologists and conservationists are pointing out how Branson could be doing the island’s native ecosystem a serious disservice. “It’s pretty weird,” Simon Stuart, chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission, told the BBC<\/a>. “What else lives on the island, and how might they be affected?”<\/p> <\/strong>On the one hand, it’s rather charming that Branson has such a hands-on approach to problems of conservation (he’s also founded the Virgin Green Fund<\/a> to tackle next-generation fuel development), which are often depressingly intractable. But the ...<\/p> Branson’s plan to save lemurs is turning heads.If you build Madagascar’s lemurs a new home, will they come? And can you trust them not to trash the place?Sir Richard Branson, private moon shot funder, Virgin Group kingpin, kooky billionaire du jour, … Continue reading <\/a>
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