September 18, 2012 — The Duke Lemur Center’s new ring-tailed lemur mascot finally has a name! We asked, and you voted to call this 6-foot tall lemur Maky (pronounced mah-key). Marsha Green at Duke Today authored this piece about the university’s newest lemur friend, originally posted here http://today.duke.edu/2012/09/meetmaky. by Marsha A. Green Voters select Malagasy word […]
August 12, 2012 — I am now sitting at my hotel in Antananarivo for my last night in Madagascar. I can’t believe I have been here for 3 months, 10 weeks of which was spent in a tent in the rainforest. I’m not going to lie, this summer was difficult. The first day I entered […]
August 4, 2012 — After spending a couple of days in Sambava buying food and supplies for our next survey mission we headed back out to the rainforest. Though still within Marojejy National Park, this time we were heading to the north-west side as opposed to the central-eastern side where we were before. This area […]
August 4, 2012 — For all of my work this summer, I worked with a student from the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. I asked him to write a short blog to tell a little about himself and to explain how he got involved working on field projects with us. – Jennifer Moore My name is […]
July 20, 2012 — by DLC Director, Dr. Anne Yoder, and Conservation Coordinator, Charlie Welch Last week, 60 of Madagascar’s leading lemur conservationists and researchers gathered in the capital of Antananarivo to reevaluate the IUCN Red-List conservation statuses of all existing lemur species. Duke Lemur Center’s SAVA Conservation project director Dr. Erik Patel was among […]
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 […]