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Duke Lemur Center

2 days ago

Happy International Women's Day!

On this International Women's Day, we're pleased to highlight the amazing women in Madagascar who work tirelessly to ensure food security for their families. DLC-SAVA Conservation is honored to work with networks of women farmers who are doing amazing things, innovating regenerative agriculture and changing the way they provide food for their families and communities 🪴

➡️ lemur.duke.edu/international-womens-day-2025

Check out our 3-part series on our website on one of those women's farming associations to learn more!

Special thanks to the Kathryn B. McQuade Foundation for supporting our women's farming associations, and to General Mills for supporting our regenerative agriculture program. All of our DLC-SAVA Conservation projects are funded by grants and donations, making our conservation efforts possible. You can support our work today with a tax-deductible donation at lemur.duke.edu/donate ✨

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Duke Lemur Center

4 days ago

Mama Lupicina and baby Majorian enjoying the fresh spring air ⛅️

While Coquerel’s sifaka infant Majorian is still too young to free-range in our forest enclosures, we have plenty of ways to ensure that everyone gets to have some fun in the sun! When it’s warm enough, the lemurs have access to screened-in outdoor patio spaces, allowing them to move freely between the indoor and outdoor parts of their enclosure. Our husbandry technicians attach branches and other structural enrichment to the fencing for the lemurs, but sometimes they prefer to dangle from the fencing itself! Three-month-old Majorian has been watching mom, dad, and big siblings climb and jump around their patio, so he’s started trying it out, too 🥹

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Duke Lemur Center

7 days ago

Happy #MadagascarMonday! Today we've got a video highlighting some of our education outreach in SAVA 💚

Educational outreach events are a great way to raise awareness about the environment, like celebrating World Lemur Day. With teams of animators and educators, we can reach people in small groups. We also give short educational talks followed by question-and-answer sessions, where people can win prizes if they answer correctly. It’s also an important opportunity to reach out to authorities, like politicians. This year, the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development came all the way to SAVA! 🤗

Using traditional song, dance, spoken word poetry, and artistic performances, community members can share their passion and enthusiasm for the environment in novel ways. Collaborating with a local talent group called Antalenta, we’re producing a number of skits using puppets, or marionettes. We also host local artists and musicians who have written songs about local biodiversity and conservation. These events are also great opportunities for local actors to showcase their projects and exchange, like WWF, Madagascar National Parks, and others 🌿

Outreach events like these are great for reaching large audiences, with as many as 2,000 people sometimes attending. By raising awareness and sharing our enthusiasm through public outreach, the DLC project is helping people and nature in Madagascar 🤩

The DLC's conservation projects in Madagascar are run exclusively on grants and donations. You can support our work today at lemur.duke.edu/donate. To learn more about conservation projects like this, visit lemur.duke.edu/conservation or keep an eye out for upcoming #MadagascarMonday posts! ✨

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