Welcome to the World Lemur Festival 2023
Thank you for joining the Lemur Conservation Foundation to celebrate Lemur conservation.Please click the lemur Gif below to learn more about LCF, staff, lemurs on our reserve, and other lemur species!Please enjoy some background Music by Julius H. from Pixabay as you learn more about lemurs by pressing the play button!For optimal viewing, please view on computer

Music from: (https://pixabay.com/music/mystery-in-the-jungle-electronic-adventure-music-7659/)

Lemur Conservation Foundation

The Lemur Conservation Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and conservation of the primates of Madagascar through managed breeding, scientific research, education, and art.

Inspired by the work of Dr. Ian Tattersall and alarmed by lemurs’ spiraling decline, museum educator and artist Penelope Bodry-Sanders founded the nonprofit Lemur Conservation Foundation in 1996.The reserve’s initial 40 acres in Myakka City, FL were purchased in 1997. The first forested lemur enclosure was built, followed by an office and research center. Lemurs began arriving soon after. Today, the reserve is 130 acres and has a thriving colony of 54 lemurs.Other successful programs include field schools for college students and conservationists, internships, and the publication of a series of children’s books in Malagasy and English which formed the cornerstone of LCF’s conservation education programs in the United States and Madagascar.In Madagascar, LCF funded a new museum and interpretive center and opened a field office. Today, LCF maintains a full-time staff in Madagascar which oversees multiple programs to protect lemurs and the rainforest.In its first decade, LCF passed rigorous inspection to earn certification by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) as a certified related facility; it has maintained that distinction ever since.

LEMURS

Lemurs are prosimians, a type of primate. They are native only to Madagascar and some small neighboring islands. There are more than 110 lemur species, 98% of which are threatened with extinction!Please click the arrows to learn more about the lemurs on the reserve as well as other lemur species!

Collared Brown Lemur
Eulemur collaris

AKA the red-collared (brown) lemur
Family: LemuridaeDID YOU KNOW?The Collared Brown Lemur weighs in at 2.25 to 2.5 kilograms (5 to 5.5 pounds) and their “balancing tails” are longer than their bodies!
They inhabit tropical moist lowland and montane forests in southeastern Madagascar.FUN FACT
Collared lemurs eat mostly fruit, which makes up 71% of their diet in the wild.