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 […]
