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Protecting lemurs during a pandemic

Preliminary results of ecological and social surveys conducted by researchers at the Centre Universitaire Régional de la SAVA (CURSA), in collaboration with Duke Lemur Center SAVA Conservation and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) By Edgar Rabevao, Audon Nivolala, Jean Eric Tsilanizara, Jeantauné Njakandrina, Aldo Bezara, Louisene Olina Rasoamiadana, Candidier Dimbiarijaonina, Hilariot Ramalazamanana, Flavien Rasolomon, Felix Jerimanana, […]



Decade of Restoration in Madagascar

James Herrera, DLC-SAVA Program Coordinator Forests provide countless benefits for wildlife and people, in terms of sequestering carbon, providing food and homes for plants, animals and people, filtering water and supporting healthy soils, to name a few. Despite the importance of natural habitats, especially forests, they have been degraded and destroyed by human activities. That […]



Lemur Conservation in Northeast Madagascar, Part II

The urban jungle James Herrera, Program Coordinator, DLC SAVA Conservation Lemurs are not only threatened in the remote rural countryside discussed in Part I of our Earth Day conservation blog. People in urban areas also capture or buy lemurs, sometimes for their own consumption or to keep as pets, or to sell to others as […]



Lemur Conservation in Northeast Madagascar, Part I

Lemurs in remote jungles James Herrera, Program Coordinator, DLC SAVA Conservation Lemurs are primates found only on Madagascar. They likely arrived from ancestors on Africa 60 million years ago, and in that time, over 100 species evolved. They can be found in almost all the natural environments of Madagascar: eastern rainforests, western dry forests, high […]