Every August, about halfway through his journey into Madagascar, veterinarian Randy Junge decides he’s never doing it again. After 30 hours of travel from the United States to reach the island off the ...

Conservationists in Madagascar are working with local communities to reduce forest fires and preserve the country's iconic lemur species. Madagascar is the only country with a native lemur population, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Many of Madagascar’s charismatic lemurs are in big trouble ...

Madagascar is an island that's no stranger to natural disasters, in particular cyclones. This is because it's located in the south-west Indian Ocean cyclone basin, a region of the Indian Ocean where ...

Where do lemurs come from and what are their origins? The ancestors of the lemurs would have arrived from Africa to Madagascar by natural floating rafts 65 million years ago. Then they evolved and ...

Lemur meat has become a discreet urban delicacy in Madagascar, with an estimated 13,000 lemurs sold annually in surveyed cities—mostly through hidden hunter-to-client channels. Peri-urban hunters run ...

Lemurs are among the best-known representatives of Madagascar's animal kingdom. They make up more than 15 percent of all primate species living today – even though the island covers less than one ...

Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare. By Dina Fine Maron Lemurs are charismatic primates known ...

Researchers are investigating a sudden spike in pregnancies in one black-and-white ruffed lemur population that might signal environmental stress to the mammals A population of black-and-white ruffed ...