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One right above you. >> anthony: has the film "madagascar" been good for the lemur business? >> darren: there you go. >> patricia: i think the cartoon really woke up the world to the fact that there was a place called madagascar, although many people think that it doesn't really exist. >> darren: so what do you think happens? how hard is it to maintain the forest? >> patricia: it's incredibly hard, you know? we've been working with the villagers around the park and i think they really do understand the value of these extraordinary lemurs and the value of the forest. the economic value of touri...

As a heat source, 90% of the forest and jungles that covered madagascar are gone. >> darren: anything? >> patricia: not yet. they're very elusive. they're very difficult to see. >> anthony: thanks largely to the work of dr. patricia wright over 40,000 hectares of forest have been set aside and protected for the creation of

Combined with the most wifi hotspots. it's a new kind of network. xfinity mobile. >> anthony: the boundaries of ranomafana park protect what they can of madagascar's rapidly diminishing rain forest. but it's not all about lemurs and rare species and unspoiled beautiful places. >> patricia: these are the tanala people. these are the people of the forest. this is the fifth time they've had to change the location of the village because they just slash and burn agriculture.

This ceremony today is a ceremony to celebrate the fact the 17 people from the village are going to donate their land to conservation. it won't be cut down. ♪ >> man: that's the zebu. >> anthony: before the tanala land can officially become a part of the park the gods, the ancestors, the ancestors, somebody must be appeased. and that, as it often does, means something must die. seen this a lot? >> patricia: i usually don't go when this is happening. >> darren: wow. >> anthony: for someone with as dark a worldview, judging from

Ranomafana national park. her recently completed research station is a state of the art complex that reminds one of that cynical spielberg franchise. what was it? jurassic, uh -- jurassic merch? >> patricia: here he is, he's right next to me, can you see him? >> darren: right here. >> anthony: oh wow. >> patricia: oh, he's really right next to me. hello. >> anthony: the area provides essential habitat for the golden bamboo lemur. a species dr. wright discovered here in 1986. and the greater bamboo lemur, previously thought extinct. >> patricia: there's only 500 of these in the wild in the whol...