Helen FieldsScience Writer

For the August National Geographic, I wrote a little story about the silky sifaka, a rare white lemur that lives in northeastern Madagascar. Between the time the story was written and the time it was published, a coup threw Madagascar into disarray. And enforcing laws in the national parks hasn’t exactly been a top priority. Illegal logging has taken off. The situation really sounds bad. Here’s a story from today’s Washington Post.

Read more about the silky sifaka – that website is by Erik Patel, the main source for my story.