Critically Endangered
Greater bamboo lemur
Prolemur simus
The greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus), also known as the broad-nosed bamboo lemur and the broad-nosed gentle lemur, is a lemur endemic to the island of Madagascar.
Appearance
It has greyish brown fur and white ear tufts, and has a head-body length of around 1.5 ft (46 cm).
The greater bamboo lemur is the largest bamboo lemur, at over 5 lb (2.3 kg).
Range and habitat
Its current range is restricted to southeastern Madagascar, although fossils indicate its former range extended across bigger areas of the island, among them as far north as Ankarana. Some notable parts of the current range are the Ranomafana and Andringitra National Parks. The greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus), also known as the broad-nosed bamboo lemur and the broad-nosed gentle lemur, is a lemur endemic to the island of Madagascar.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus), is one of the world's most critically endangered primates, according to the IUCN Red List. Scientists believed that it was extinct, but a remnant population was discovered in 1986. Since then, surveys of south- and central-eastern Madagascar have found about 500 individuals in 11 subpopulations.
Human activities and climate change have resulted in the depletion of populations and resulted in a few remaining patches of forest capable of supporting this species. The species is endangered by the following: slash and burn farming, mining, bamboo, and other logging, and slingshot hunting.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Greater bamboo lemur is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Greater bamboo lemur, Wikidata item Q969373. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
