Lots of habitat loss and hunting. Not to mention that it was getting killed simply because it was considered ugly.
What factors contribute to positive or negative trends in this animal’s plight?
People don’t care about the laws being made so they will kill the aye-aye's on sight, we still have deforestation, and the aye-aye's are so sneaky, that they aren’t seen enough on reserves to know actual population numbers.
What are the consequences of losing the animal to extinction?
Aye-ayes may help to disperse fruiting tree seeds through their frugivory. They are also important predators of wood-boring beetle larvae, so without them we might have infestations of these insects.
What dilemmas or controversies are involved with the endangerment and extinction of this animal?
It’s ugly so many people or conservation groups don’t use it as advertisement, the natives still feel it is a harbinger of death and ill will so they kill them anyways, not knowing actual population numbers makes it very difficult to know for sure if more actions need to be taken to increase population...
What are the opposing viewpoints related to the endangerment and extinction of this animal?
While some villages avoid the aye-aye entirely out of fear, other villages believe them to be evil and seek them out to kill them. Other villages, due to extreme poverty, hunt them and kill them for the meat. These villages as a whole do not feel the need to conserve or protect the aye-aye.