Help Almost Extinct Animals: How Can We Help Silky Sifaka From Extinction

What have i learned so far after maintaining this blog of amazing extinct animals? That is the main question flying around my head, and the answer is simply how we could not stay put just by knowing which animals are already extinct and which are on the brink of extinction, we should start doing a favour to the planet we live in by doing the best we can to at least help the endangered animals to stay on this planet earth for a little longer, or maybe hopefully saved and recovered from extinction. This animal that i will try to discuss is the unique monkey from the wild madagascar, the name of the species is silky sifaka or simpona.

Help Almost Extinct Animal Silky Sifaka

Like you probably already know about Silky Sifafka from my previous post about almost extinct animals, how this species of lemur only lives on the island of Madagascar in the northeastern rainforests.

Almost Extinct Animal Silky Sifaka

Silky Sifaka

Also how its population is very small and it is hunted by some local people for meat, man i just cannot believe that, but on the other side i think it is just natural how people's instinct brought them to become a hunter when living in the wild jungle. But unfortunately that makes this one of the most endangered primates in the world. The silky sifafka is killed entirely in the wild, it most likely can’t be kept alive in a captive breeding program or zoo.

Silky Sifaka

And the worst news is that the species has a low birth rate. Compounding matters, political turmoil has disrupted normal operations at one of the sites where they live. The Marojejy park has closed to tourism because of unsafe conditions created by armed thugs stealing very valuable hardwoods.

Help Almost Extinct Animal Silky Sifaka

Their Population is only approximately 100 – 1000
And their reproduction suggest that generally females birth one infant every two years, but there are cases of a female birthing one infant per year.

So, the real question is what can we do?

Help Almost Extinct Animal Silky Sifaka

My take is to keep spreading the words to anyone we bump into, tell them everything we know, the more people we share to, the bigger chance that less people will hunt them like before.

Help Almost Extinct Animal Silky Sifaka

What i get from this very informative article http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/07/10-animals-on-the-verge-of-extinction/ is we could Contact Erik Patel of Cornell University and ask him what you can do. And we could also show this silky lemur documentary to students when it is available. Visit the lemur park when it is safe to do so, and don’t forget about Madagascar during the political upheaval, as the Marojejy park website says, “While you might not be able to visit some of these beautiful areas right now, we hope you will not forget them, and that you will continue to work for their preservation.”

It seem not that hard to just give our attention a little bit on the awareness of the almost extinct animals, so that we could help them out even just by spreading the words to everyone we know. That won't hurt, right? Also to get more information about the animal, you can go to www.simpona.org