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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 […]

INFANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome, Brady!

Media Inquiries: Please email sara.clark@duke.edu for access to images and video. Please join us in welcoming Brady, a critically endangered blue-eyed black lemur, to the Duke Lemur Center family! Named after fellow dark-haired, blue-eyed stunner Tom Brady – quarterback for the New England Patriots and now the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Brady was born on […]

Announcing a New Endowment for the Duke Lemur Center

The Barbara Colyear Parkening Lemur Care Fund by Mary Paisley, Development Officer With so many challenges in our world these days due to COVID-19, it’s been truly uplifting to spend time writing this article honoring a wonderful friend of the Duke Lemur Center who recently made an incredible gift to us. With the donor’s permission, […]

Stay Away 5K – Virtual Run or Walk

ICYMI: Earth Day 2020 Virtual Extravaganza

On April 22, the DLC hosted a virtual Earth Day extravaganza, with online talks and videos every hour from 9:00 AM ‘til 5:00 PM! In case you missed it, here are links to all of the great content from that day. Whether you’re a DLC tour veteran or a first-time follower, we’re so happy you’re […]

New Article Published: Environmental education in Madagascar’s SAVA region

By Drs. Marina Blanco and Lydia Greene A paper on environmental education in the SAVA (northeastern) region of Madagascar, authored by DLC conservation and research staff, has been published in PLoS ONE! The paper highlights the importance of working with primary school students directly, and of designing ways to track and monitor knowledge/perceptions across students […]