lemur conservation

Just some thoughts of how zoos should react to splitting or lumping species or subspecies. Recent proposals to split subspecies into species affected among other ungulates and primates. Split species included giraffe, antelope, deer, caprids, mouse lemurs, loris, night monkeys, sakis and...

A pair of Ring-Tailed Lemur at the 'Lemur Woods' exhibit at West Midland Safari Park, UK. I believe that it was once considered the largest exhibit of its kind in the UK, but this could be incorrect. Either way, it is always a pleasant place to sit and take some photos on a busy day.

Yesterday thanks to the zoochatters @gentle lemur and @Therabu I discovered a fantastic French conservation organization "Help-Simus" that works both ex-situ and in-situ with the greater bamboo lemur in Madagascar. I'll leave the link below for those who are interested. Helpsimus A video for...

I've been doing some thinking and reading about the necessity of ex-situ Eulemur conservation lately given how dire the situation facing many of these is in the wild in Madagascar. I wanted to start this thread specifically about the genus within zoos and discuss what the best enclosures for...

This is quite an interesting website that allows users to access information (papers, documents, photos, videos, audio recordings on behaviour, ecology and conservation) on every known species of lemur in Madagascar. Enjoy ;) Madagascar Lemurs Portal

This website for the Lemur Conservation Network is great for anything related to lemur conservation and so I thought I'd share it with zoochatters The Lemur Conservation Network is a project of the Madagascar section of the IUCN SSC Primate specialist group. The site has information on...

Interesting Mongabay article on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on lemurs through loss of eco-tourism and the increasing rate of deforestation. Lemurs might never recover from COVID-19 (commentary)