By Dr. James Herrera, DLC Director of Conservation. It is with great joy that we share the news: Nestorine has successfully completed her PhD! Nestorine has been a collaborator with DLC since 2019, and starting in 2021, she has been a PhD scholar studying nutrition and solutions to malnutrition in the SAVA region of Madagascar. […]
Meet Zava! Critically endangered blue-eyed black lemur infant Zava was born on March 2, 2026, to parents Charlie and Mangamaso at a healthy 87 grams, slightly larger than her older sister Mitsiky’s birth weight. At two months old, Zava is incredibly curious, often climbing off of mom and onto the wire and branching in her […]
We’ve given the DLC-SAVA Conservation annual newsletter a fresh coat of paint! Our newest issue is brighter, fresher, and eminently scrollable. Check out the redesign and join us in celebrating everything we’ve achieved together in northeastern Madagascar in 2025!
Update on The Charles Welch and Andrea Katz Fund A year ago, we celebrated the career and retirement of former DLC Conservation Coordinator, Charlie Welch, and shared that a new Duke Lemur Center endowment fund was established in honor of Charlie and his wife, Andrea Katz. We’re proud to share that it is nearing $300,000 […]
Restoring forests requires multi-dimensional research and planning to optimize success. The Duke Lemur Center is part of an international consortium of researchers and conservations who are studying forest restoration in Madagascar and designing new and innovative ways to improve restoration outcomes. By studying ecology, social sciences, and policy, we will design guidelines and action plans […]
Landscape restoration is regenerating forests around the world, and is a pillar of the DLC-SAVA Conservation project in northeastern Madagascar. This short documentary, which features one of DLC-SAVA’s landscape restoration projects, was featured on the Malagasy national Sunday news. Media attention like this shows the broad interest in conservation and publicizes our efforts, and is […]
By Matt Borths, Ph.D., Curator of the DLC Museum of Natural History. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: Reasons for Hope in February 2026. I was a dinosaur kid. I loved getting books from the library filled with weird dinosaur names and fun facts. This blizzard of ancient Greek and solid numbers led me to believe […]
Originally sent as our “Best of Spring” eNewsletter on May 4, 2026. Join our email list to be the first to receive our newsletters in the future! Updates are sent four to six times annually. IN THIS ISSUE: Zoboomafoo, new infants, space travel, support and snuggle with our new custom plushes, advancing veterinary science, Presidential Award, […]