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#World Lemur Day 2026 Schedule 🌍 The celebrations for World #Lemur Day are starting tomorrow in #Ranomafana 🎉 We look forward to celebrating our wonderful lemurs and sharing World Lemur Day updates with you all over the next two days 💚

Are you excited about World #Lemur Day 2026? 🎉 Celebrations are in full preparation here in #Ranomafana as the most exciting day of the year is coming up this Friday October 30th! 📸: Male “Crystal” red-fronted brown lemur (Eulemur rufifrons) from Ambodiamarohita, Haoyu Zhang

🌍 Science driving #conservation action at #COP17! #CVB is proud to be on the ground in Yerevan, Armenia, working alongside global stakeholders to support the #Malagasy delegation with the science, partnerships, and evidence needed to advance #biodiversity conservation.

Join Stony Brook Uni’s Winter 2027 Study Abroad program from January 1st-20th & work with experts in primatology, field ecology, sustainability & more… all while being located in one of #Madagascar’s most unique tropical rainforests.  Find out more: [email protected]

A new #nursery was built on October 19 in Kianjanomby to cultivate seedlings destined to the Forest Corridor Project. This project aims to establish forest corridors between #forest fragments found in villages of the Ifanadiana region w/ RNP. Funded by The Dutch Zoo Association.

Come celebrate World Lemur Day with the Young Environmentalists Society 🌿 Join this year’s celebrations on Friday October 30 2026 (4pm to 5.30pm) at The South Fork Natural History Museum in Long Island. Registration required ⬇️ sofo.org/calendar/

Centre ValBio Annual Report 2025 🎉 The Centre ValBio 2025 Annual Report is now available for download! See the exciting discoveries and advances in research and conservation we accomplished in 2025 (link in bio) ⬇️ tr.ee/5OA0ul6AK-

Make sure to look where you walk when visiting #Ranomafana NP. You could be wandering straight past one of the smallest #chameleons in the world. Brookesia superciliaris can be found in the rainforests of south-east Madagascar & is easily confused with leaf litter. 📸 Haoyu Zhang

Dr Patricia Wright received the distinguished Doshi Family Bridgebuilder Award on September 17th at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles 🎖️

8 students from the #SBU Study Abroad program joined our Environmental Education team to visit a primary school in Ranomafana. This initiative aimed to educate children about the diverse #lemur species of RNP & raise awareness about the importance of protecting #rainforests.

#Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Wright for being honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the African #Primatological Institute on September 11th 2026, in recognition of her 40-year contribution to #lemur research and conservation. 📸: Noel Rowe

Guess the species⁉️ Do you know your Ranomafana National Park lemur species? We’ll give you a few hints: it feeds on bamboo and the colour of its coat features in its common name 💛 Comment on the species name below ⬇️ 📸 credit: Lan Yao

CVB’s #Health Team has been actively collaborating with Rutgers University’s #Bergey Lab team to carry out joint field expeditions in #Ranomafana communities to improve access to primary health care services for local populations & facilitate #research on respiratory #infections.

Catholic Relief Services returned for their biennial visit to CVB. CRS has been partnering since 2019 with #CVB on the SPICES program. SPICES aims to improve the livelihoods of farmers while restoring degraded landscapes through market-driven, nature-based agroforestry practices.

Our #Restoration Ecology team has been hard at work on the Forest Corridor Project these past months, growing 984 #saplings in our #nurseries and planting them in the village of Kianjanomby with the help of 60 villagers. Thank you to The Dutch Zoo Association for their support.

Happy International Primate Day 🐒 Did you know #lemurs are the most endangered group of primates in the world? 90% of 112 lemur species are at risk of extinction due to habitat destruction, illegal hunting, illegal trapping, climate change & invasive species. 📸 Chloé Décobert

Colorado State University 2026 study abroad program 🐏 In July we hosted a 10-day visit from students involved in the #Colorado State Uni SA program. The CSU students focused on mouse #lemur trapping as well as learning #insect and plant collection methods. 📸 Brooke Squires

The Blue #Coua 💙 One of the most striking birds to be found in #Ranomafana National Park, the blue coua is an endemic species to Madagascar & belongs to the cuckoo family. Unlike other cuckoos, blue couas build their own nests & don't display parasitic behaviour. 📸: Haoyu Zhang

World Mosquito Day 🦟 Today we would like to celebrate the efforts of CVB’s doctors and nurses who treat mosquito-borne cases, like malaria, in the field each month in the Ranomafana region.

The Croucher Foundation’s visit to Madagascar ✈️ What an honour it was for CVB to welcome representatives from The Croucher Foundation this July, including Dr. Timothy Cox, Dr. Artur Ekert, Dr. Paul Lehner, Dr. Alice Wong, Sophia Zhu Yibing and David Foster.  📸: Dr. Wright