Lemurs face extinction

The updated Red List describes the primates as one of the most threatened groups of animals on Earth.

More than 90% of lemurs are facing extinction, according to the latest global assessment of the world’s most threatened species. The update to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List, which contains more than 73,000 species around the world, also warned that temperate slipper orchids and the Japanese eel have joined the list of the 22,103 species now classed by experts as critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable to extinction.