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 […]
