The Foreign Service Journal, September 2015

102 SEPTEMBER 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY CHRISTOPHER E. TREMANN n MADAGASCAR Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be considered for Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8” x 10”) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please include a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. M ade famous in the animated movies named after their primary habitat, Madagascar, lemurs are easy to spot in the island nation. Yet, at the same time, illegal logging and hunting are endangering these unusual creatures and have, in fact, earned them the undesirable distinction of being one of the most-endangered vertebrates, threatened with extinction. This par- ticular one, a ring-tailed lemur (lemur catta), rests on a branch in Andasibe- Mantadia National Park in eastern Madagascar after snacking on bananas. n Deputy RSO for Investi- gations Chris Tremann is posted in Beijing. His previous tour was as RSO in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where he had an opportu- nity to explore the country and experience the island nation’s famed flora and fauna firsthand. This photo was taken in 2009 with a Panasonic DMC-ZS7.