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Verreaux's Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), Isalo National Park, Madagascar
© GRID-Arendal/Peter Prokosh2012
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Nairobi, Kenya
The Verreaux's Sifaka or White Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) lives in the forests of south-western Madagascar. This endemic lemur species of the family Indriidae is classified by IUCN as Vulnurable. It depends on the small spiny forests fragments of South Madagascar, where it prefers large trees.
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- Title: Verreaux's Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), Isalo National Park, Madagascar
- Creator: © GRID-Arendal/Peter Prokosh
- Date Created: 2012
- Location: Africa, Madagascar, Isalo National Park
- Subject Keywords: wetlands, biodiversity, fauna
- Original Source: http://www.grida.no/resources/1321
- Rights: © Peter Prokosch/GRID-Arendal
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