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New IUCN Conservation Assessments: Coquerel’s sifakas now Critically Endangered

By DLC research scientists Marina Blanco, Ph.D. and Lydia Greene, Ph.D. The new conservation assessments for Madagascar’s 107 lemur species have been released by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the updates are, to say the least, alarming. Since the previous assessment, many species have been uplisted, meaning that they are now considered […]

INFANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Meet Ripley, a black and white ruffed lemur!

Meet Ripley, a critically endangered black and white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) born to first-time parents Herschel and Hermione! Ripley was born May 12, 2020 and is named after a crater on Pluto’s moon—which was named after Sigourney Weaver’s character in Alien! Our Ripley is brave, bold, and adventurous, just like her fictional namesake. At feeding […]

INFANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Meet Myna, a fat-tailed dwarf lemur!

CHONK ALERT! When you think “baby dwarf lemur,” you probably think “small.” But Myna (named after the talkative myna bird) is very BIG for her age—and species! Myna has been growing like a weed since she was born on June 3, 2020, and her keepers are very impressed with how big and strong she is. […]

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Agroforestry Workshop in Madagascar’s SAVA Region

By James P. Herrera, Ph.D. Program Coordinator, DLC-SAVA Conservation Deforestation, especially clearing forest for agriculture, is one of the biggest causes of biodiversity loss in the world. In Madagascar, as in many tropical low-income countries, subsistence farmers that live on the forest frontier often use a system of shifting agriculture that involves slashing (clear-cutting) vegetation, […]

Learn about Lemurs — FREE Weekly Series!

As featured in The New York Times!  The DLC’s free Lemur Science! And Trivia? weekly online series is hosted on YouTube Live by our new virtual education partners Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants at 10:00 AM EST every Thursday. Each week, one of the DLC’s very own lemur experts will go in-depth on […]

Mask Donations and Education Help Prevent Spread of COVID-19 in Madagascar

By Lanto Andrianandrasana, DLC-SAVA Project Coordinator DLC-SAVA Conservation is participating in the effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the SAVA (northeastern) region of Madagascar! In collaboration with a local youth association called Youth Observatory, we provided masks to the staff of the CHRR (Center Hospitalier de Reference Régional) hospital Besopaka in Sambava. The […]

GUEST BLOG: A Field Test with the Lemurs

Written by Keriann McGoogan, Ph.D. It was 2009 and the peak of the dry season in Ankarafantsika National Park, northwest Madagascar. That meant that it was hot. Like, crazy hot. I fanned myself with my data book as I stood in the middle of the forest. My job as a primatologist was to find and […]

2020 #StayAway5k Results

Thank you! Thank you for being a part of the Duke Lemur Center’s Stay Away 5k this weekend! In April 2020, when the DLC decided to organize this event, we were excited about its potential to bring people from across the country and around the world together to do something fun and help lemurs. We […]