By Mary Paisley. Posted November 21, 2018. Thanksgiving week is a great time to reflect on and be thankful for the generous support we received through our Mission: Madagascar event on October 6th! It was a wonderful celebration! We’ve updated the event homepage, added photos from the big evening, and compiled a list of our […]
By Marina Blanco, Ph.D., DLC-SAVA Post-Doctoral Project Coordinator The “Lemur Day Festival” was celebrated on Halloween in the SAVA region of Madagascar this year! DLC-SAVA Conservation, along with NGOs like World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Lemur Conservation Foundation (LCF), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and others assisted with the organization and celebrated the day with school students in […]
Join our Conservation Coordinator, Charlie Welch, for the trip of a lifetime this summer! You do NOT need to be a Duke alumnus/a to join us for this amazing tour of Madagascar! Lots more info available here, including a gorgeous multi-page brochure: https://lemur.duke.edu/protect/madagascar-ecotour/. We hope you’ll join us!
By Mary Paisley, Development Officer Duke Alumni Travel is already accepting reservations (three spaces filled as of today) for the 2019 tour, scheduled for June 9-22, 2019. For more information, click HERE. For questions or to reserve your space by phone, call Duke Alumni Travel at (919) 684-2988. With the Duke Lemur Center’s Conservation Coordinator, Charlie […]
Registration begins this Friday, August 10 for the Duke Lemur Center’s fall benefit under the stars! Donations will support the DLC’s Madagascar Conservation Programs. Click HERE to be directed to the event information page, where the registration link will be posted on Friday. We hope to see you there!
Join the DLC on the trip of a lifetime! Date: July 16-28, 2018 with optional 4-day extension to Anjajavy Region: Africa Activity Level: Strenuous Arrangements: Terra Incognita Ecotours Click HERE to view the trip’s 8-page, full-color brochure! Note that, even though the trip is offered by Duke Alumni Travel in collaboration with the DLC, you do […]
The celebration of World Environment Day started one day early in the SAVA region of Madagascar this year! The entire DLC-SAVA team held an environmental education celebration at the school in the village of Andasibe Kobahina, not far from Marojejy National Park. (Marojejy is one of the last great expanses of primary rainforest in Madagascar […]
AnkomPalooza and Madagascar-California drawing exchange By Lydia Greene, DLC researcher and Duke PhD candidate Getting excited about the upcoming Lemurpalooza? We on the DLC’s SAVA team in Madagascar are sad to miss it, and so we held our own AnkomPalooza (Ankomba means lemur in Malagasy)! We threw the event at the local primary school in Manantenina, […]
