Nature, third prize winner, stories. From “Chameleon Under Pressure,” a juvenile Furcifer balteatus in a recently burned landscape in Madagascar on November 16, 2014. Fires are often deadly for chameleons, because they can't move fast enough to escape them. The common practice of burning the landscape at the end of every dry season has affected many species of chameleons, both directly via fatalities due to burning and indirectly due to habitat loss. Madagascar holds more than half of the world's chameleon species; however, as a result of deforestation causing habitat loss, 50 percent of the chameleon species is endangered.