Published on April 7, 2026. The DLC was featured in a new Short Doc in The Chronicle, Duke’s student-run media organization! The video features DLC Communications & Education Specialist Abby Flyer (Duke ’21) and Duke senior Dhruv Rungta, who explain what makes the DLC so special. You can learn more about the customized care of […]
Read the Duke Lemur Center’s Stakeholder Update, sent to our donors on March 26, 2026. Questions? Contact Mary Paisley, DLC Development Director, at mary.paisley@duke.edu.
Posted March 9, 2026. In Madagascar and other low-income countries, charcoal and firewood are still the dominant cooking fuels. But traditional charcoal has major drawbacks: Producing traditional charcoal involves cutting trees, a significant cause of deforestation. For millions of women cooking daily meals for their families, exposure to smoke from dirty fuel causes respiratory disease. […]
By Andrea Tejada, 2022 Communications Intern, and DLC Staff Originally published in January 2023 in “The Women’s Issue” of the DLC annual magazine. The fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) have evolved in many ways over time, and although many of the most prominent early leaders in these fields were men, today more […]
Written by Ana Breit, Ph.D., Research Scientist at the Duke Lemur Center. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: The “Reasons for Hope” Issue in February 2026. When people think of hibernation, they tend to picture animals in dens deep beneath a layer of snow, waiting out the winter. But this is just one example of what […]
By Emilien Razafindrabozy, Rostella Christine, Melsa Stephania Razafindrasoa, and Nestorine Manantenasoa of Centre Universitaire Regional de la SAVA (CURSA) Translated by James Herrera, Ph.D., Program Coordinator the DLC-SAVA Conservation Program Originally published in January 2023 in “The Women’s Issue” of the DLC annual magazine. Women’s Farmer Association: Empowering Women in Sustainable Agriculture, SAVA-style Globally, women […]
Cyclone Damage in Madagascar Update on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 from Greg Dye, DLC Executive Director Tropical Cyclone Gezani brought devastating winds and flooding to Madagascar when it made landfall in Toamasina (Tamatave), Madagascar on February 10. Striking with sustained winds of 115 mph, and arriving just 10 days after Cyclone Fytia hit the country’s […]
Coquerel’s Sifaka Conservation Breeding Program in Europe, Madagascar, and the USA By DLC staff. Originally published in February 2026 in LEMURS Magazine: Reasons for Hope. Captions: Left: Sydonie is the second successful birth to parents Beatrice and Elliot, who traveled from the DLC to Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England, in 2021 and were the first […]