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We are working with www.SavingSpecies.org and www.discoverlife.org to purchase degraded habitat in Mahasoa, Madagascar with the goal of saving the greater bamboo lemur, Prolemur simus.
Ranomafana National Park has been declared part of a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage site cluster. Conservation International has issued a press release about this unique honor.
Visit Dr. Wright's new personal home page.
Pat Wright and ICTE are in the News! See articles in
Smithsonian
(abstract), Natural
History, and National
Geographic News. Also, Pat Wright is featured on this BBC
radio report on the TEAM
meeting.
April 7 2005 - Primate Specialist Group of IUCN-The
World Conservation Union’s Species Survival Commission
announces the World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2004-2006,
including four from Madagascar. Click
here for Malagasy Press coverage and information from Conservation
International.
June 7-9 2005 - Second Annual meeting of the International
Consortium for Research and Training
February 2005 - Dr.
Anna Feistner begins her term as the Director
of the Centre ValBio
February 2005 - Cover photo on American Journal of Primatology
(Volume 65, Issue 2) is a photos of Propithecus edwardsi
taken by Summer Arrigo-Nelson.
The lead article "Patterns of male scent-marking in Propithecus
edwardsi of Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar", is by
ICTE scientists Sharon
Pochron, Toni Lyn
Morelli, Pia Terranova, Jessica Scirbona, Justin Cohen,
Girish Kunapareddy, George Rakotonirina, Raymond Ratsimbazafy,
Remi Rakotosoa, and Patricia
Wright.
October
2004 - Patricia Wright
received the "Officier d'Ordre National" medal and
Benjamin Andriamihaja received
the "Chevalier d'Ordre National" medal from the President
of Madagascar. The medal ceremony was held at the Centre
Valbio.
