Student presentations at the MBP office wrapped up at the end of September. In total, twelve students shared their research with the office staff and visiting international volunteers. Thanks to Mme. Rakouth and Mme. Brigitte, two student advisors from the University of Antananarivo, who also came out to support these early career scientists.     Thanks to all of our students for sharing with us their progress. Also, congrats to Christophe for defending his doctoral … Read More

The student presentation series at MBP was officially kicked off by Micou and Lucia.  Lucia spent a year at Montage de Francais establishing a reforestation program.  She and her colleagues from the village of Andavakoera in the far north of Madagascar worked in MBP’s nursery to raise seedlings from seeds extracted from the poo of the crowned lemurs (Eulemur coronatus).  It takes a lot of work to start a program like this including following the … Read More

The 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society took place in Vietnam on 11-16 August, 2014. The congress was held at the Melia Hotel, Hanoi. The theme of the conference was ‘Meeting the Challenges of Conserving Primate Diversity.’  OHDZA-MBP’s Dr. Louis, Dr. Lei, Dr. Frasier and Conservation Fusion’s Susie McGuire all presented over the course of this week. Congratulations to everyone on a job well done!