{"id":35394,"date":"2011-05-15T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/richard-branson-wants-to-save-the-lemurs\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:44:54","slug":"richard-branson-wants-to-save-the-lemurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/richard-branson-wants-to-save-the-lemurs.php","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson Wants to Save the Lemurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3293\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2011\/05\/12\/richard-branson-wants-to-save-the-lemurs\/richard_branson-carbon-war\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3293\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2f7ce_richard_branson-carbon-war-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"richard_branson\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Anyone who is familiar with Lemurs knows they are probably one of the cutest creatures in the animal kingdom. However, sadly they are also one of the most endangered. <\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN\"><span>Billionaire Richard Branson says he wants to use one of his private Caribbean islands to help save an<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN\"> <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><span><span>endangered species of African primate.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN\"><span><span>The British entrepreneur plans to introduce lemurs to the undeveloped Moskito Island in the British Virgin Islands. Branson said he hopes to create a thriving population to help make up for the loss of their native habitat on the island of Madagascar.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN\"><span><span>Branson said on Monday he hopes to bring the first group of about 30 from zoos in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN\"><span><span>He calls it a radical idea and says he will try to address concerns of critics who fear the plan will hurt native lizard and bird populations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN\"><span><span>Moskito is about 135 kilometres east of Puerto Rico<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><div><p><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/conservation\/private-island-may-save-lemurs-branson-20110419-1dn7h.html#ixzz1LJerF3wz\">Read more: <\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who is familiar with Lemurs knows they are probably one of the cutest creatures in the animal kingdom. However, sadly they are also one of the most endangered. Billionaire Richard Branson says he wants to use one of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/richard-branson-wants-to-save-the-lemurs.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}