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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
