The lemur situation in Madagascar is nothing short of a crisis. Ninety-four percent of the population is threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with habitat loss caused by the clearing of Madagascar’s forests a big reason why. Researchers now have a new tool at their disposal, however, in the form of facial recognition software that can identify individual lemurs and inform long-term conservation strategies.
via New Atlas
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