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Can you see him? hello. >> the area provides essential habitat for the golden bamboo lemur. a species that dr. wright discovered here in 1986 and the greater bamboo lemur, previously thought extinct. >> there's only 500 of these in the world in the whole wild. >> slash and burn agriculture. look at it. beautiful. it's so nice. >> he's taking a leak right now. >> i can't watch. >> hopefully that's not an editorial statement. ♪ >> look. this is the kind of bamboo shoot that the lemurs love. it's full of protein, and it's full of cyanide.

The director of the national park, where's your village that you lived in when you were a little girl? that's on one side of the park. ♪ [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> the ancestors presumably okay with the land transfer. it's time to party. ♪ dr. wright worked hard to establish ranomafana park with the stated aim of protecting the absolutely unique flora and fauna here and reducing human

♪ dr. wright worked hard to establish the park with the stated aim of protecting the absolutely unique flora and fauna here and reducing human pressures on the area. this, however, is the face of human pressure, just so we're clear. >> okay. take care, guys. >> we're right on the edge of the park.

And burn agriculture that's existed here since this island was first settled and the imperative of charcoal as heat source, 90% of the forests and jungles that cover madagascar are gone. ♪ >> anything? >> not yet. they're very elusive. they're very difficult to see. >> thanks largely to the work of dr. patricia wright, over 4,000 hectares of forest have been set

>> anything? >> not yet. they're very elusive. they're very difficult to see. >> thanks largely to the work of dr. patricia wright, over 40,000 hectares of forest have been set aside and protected with the creation of 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 -- jurassic merch? >> there he is. he's right next to me. can you see him?