July 18, 2012 — Last week, 60 of Madagascar’s leading lemur conservationists and researchers gathered in Antananarivo (the capital) to reevaluate the IUCN Red-List conservation statuses of each lemur species. It had been seven years since the last assessment. New discoveries and increasing conservation threats since the coup d’etat in 2009 and ongoing political crisis […]
July 11, 2012 — Michael Hearst is a composer, instrumentalist, and writer and he recently released a new album entitled Songs for Unusual Creatures. Taking inspiration from some of the world’s strange and endangered animals, Hearst and his team of musician-composers used traditional and nontraditional instruments to invoke the essence of the strange and unusual. […]
July 7, 2012 — Jennifer Moore is a graduate student at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment and tour guide at the Duke Lemur Center. She sent us this report on her research in Madagascar’s Marojejy National Park with DLC post-doc Dr. Erik Patel. June 25, 2012 I have been in Madagascar for […]
June 21, 2012 — One of the big projects that students do at Durham Academy is their 8th grade Independent Science Project. There are often a lot of interesting and fun topics, such as whether people do better on tests after exercise, if artificial sweeteners taste different than natural sugars in lemonade, and what ingredients […]
June 8, 2012 — The first 73 hours after birth are the most critical for a baby lemur, and during this period, the baby is weighed every day to ensure that it is growing and thriving. It’s not always possible to observe the baby nursing, so the most reliable way to make sure the baby […]
May 18, 2012 — I’ve been planning for months and months, and the day is finally arriving. I’m leaving tomorrow to spend my summer in Madagascar! I can’t believe I’m finally saying that, but I’m really leaving tomorrow! My name is Jennifer Moore and I’m a Master’s student at the Nicholas School of the Environment […]
April 4, 2012 — A recently released conservation oriented film by the BBC, which features DLC’s own Dr. Erik Patel, has just won accolades at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana! http://wildlifefilms.wordpress.com/ In addition to Erik’s research on silky sifakas, “Madagascar, Lemurs, and Spies” also features undercover work by Sascha Von Bismarck of […]
March 30, 2012 — Aracus started getting into trouble as a youth, with a string of arrests, rehab, and finally a stint in lock-up. He never knew who his father was. While he was confined, he began participating in research projects, and discovered he really had a talent for it. Upon release, he settled down […]
