For many in Madagascar, the new year brings many opportunities for landscape restoration. January is usually a perfect time because the rainy season has begun, providing natural irrigation for the trees. All over the island, different partners and organizations host big reforestation events, sometimes with thousands of people planting tens of thousands of trees. At […]
By Mary Paisley, Development Director. Published March 21, 2025. In our quest to acquire special fruit-bearing trees, our friendships grew, organically When Charlie Welch wrote this article about the importance of the Lemur Center’s organic food forest and our dedicated garden volunteers, he also sparked a new challenge by sharing his wish to add four […]
Originally published on Phys.org on March 11, 2025. Read the original here. We’re all familiar with the outward signs of aging. The face that greets you in the mirror each morning may have sagging skin or thinning hair. But many age-related changes start within our cells, even our DNA, which can wear and tear over […]
Happy International Women’s Day! By James Herrera, Ph.D., DLC-SAVA Conservation Coordinator. Published on March 8, 2025. 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 […]
The Newest Addition to Our 2025 Baby Season On December 19, 2024, ten-year-old Coquerel’s sifaka Lupicina gave birth to a healthy male infant. Majorian was born at 102 grams, a very standard weight for a sifaka infant. Majorian is the third offspring of Lupicina and breeding partner Gabe. Majorian shares his name with a Western […]
By Charlie Welch, DLC Conservation Coordinator. Published on February 21, 2025. An onsite, organic “food forest” For over a decade, thanks to a team of garden volunteers, we at Duke Lemur Center (in Durham, North Carolina USA) have been growing vegetables and other edible plants of all sorts for our lemurs. We can’t come close […]
By Stephen Schramm, Working@Duke Senior Writer. Originally published in Duke Today on February 19, 2025. Read the original and see the accompanying photos here. Monthly open houses at the Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History offer glimpses of work behind evolutionary discoveries As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, […]
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN. Originally published on CNN Science on January 17, 2025. Read the original here. Learn more about the DLC’s collaborations with Egyptian paleontologists, including the study’s lead author Shorouq Al-Ashqar, on pages 44-47 of LEMURS Magazine: The “Where” Issue. An apex carnivore was ‘king of the ancient Egyptian forest’ then mysteriously went […]
