The Next Leap Starts with You
For more than 60 years, the Duke Lemur Center has worked to deepen our understanding of the natural world, protect endangered species, and inspire future generations of scientists and conservation leaders. Every leap forward began with vision, resolve, and the belief that more is possible.
Supporters like you have helped turn possibility into progress, advancing discoveries, protecting endangered species, inspiring future leaders, and caring for the world’s most extraordinary primates. We are grateful for the generosity of individuals and organizations whose investments are foundational to every breakthrough, every protected forest, every student inspired, and every lemur in our care.
Why Your Support Matters
Your decision to support the Duke Lemur Center makes you part of a community of people who are our champions, joining our mission as a global leader in the care and conservation of lemurs and their habitat. And, you advance our work in scientific discovery, conservation, and education.
One of the things that makes the Duke Lemur Center unique is that every aspect of our mission is connected:
- The care we provide for the lemurs supports research.
- Research informs conservation.
- Conservation protects species and habitats.
- Education inspires future generations of scientists and conservation leaders.
Together, these efforts create a lasting impact for lemurs, their habitats, and the people working to protect them. And, as the need for conservation, scientific discovery, and exceptional animal care continues to grow, philanthropic support plays an increasingly important role in sustaining and advancing this work.
Your generosity helps make every leap forward possible.
Advancing Discovery
Your support advances discoveries that deepen our understanding of primate history, aging, cognition, health, behavior, and the natural world.
Caring for Lemurs
Your support provides exceptional care and specialized nutrition, enrichment, and veterinary care for every lemur at the Duke Lemur Center. It also enables us to train and mentor animal care professionals from around the world, multiplying the impact of this work.
Protecting their Natural Habitat
Your support helps protect one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems. Madagascar is a remarkable biodiversity treasure, with more than 85% of its plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth. Working alongside local communities and conservation partners, the Duke Lemur Center helps restore habitats, support sustainable livelihoods, and create brighter futures for both people and wildlife.
Together, we are helping protect the forests lemurs call home, as well as improving the lives of the people living in those areas.
Inspiring Future Leaders
Your support helps prepare today’s students to become tomorrow’s conservationists, veterinarians, researchers, and educators. Through hands-on learning experiences, internships, mentorship, and training opportunities, the Duke Lemur Center shares its expertise and helps cultivate the next generation of people who will carry this important work forward.
Make the Next Leap Possible
For more than 60 years, people like you have helped the Duke Lemur Center achieve extraordinary things. Our future will be shaped by those who continue that legacy. Every leap forward begins with a decision to help shape what comes next.
Your generosity today powers tomorrow’s discoveries, conservation successes, and opportunities for future generations.
If you prefer to send a check, please mail it with a completed gift form or with “Duke Lemur Center” in the memo section (very important!) made payable to “Duke University, and mail it to: Duke Lemur Center, c/o Office of Gift Records, Box 90581, Durham, NC 27708-0581.
For more giving options, visit our WAYS TO GIVE page.
QUESTIONS? Contact Mary Paisley, DLC Development Director, at mary.paisley@duke.edu or 919.401.7252.
