Dr. Patricia Wright: For the Love of Lemurs
Species Unite4 Huhti 2024

Dr. Patricia Wright: For the Love of Lemurs

"He called me into his office and he said, 'you see that picture above my desk?' I said, 'yes.' It kind of looked like an animal that reminded me of a squirrel. He said, 'that is a lemur that we think is extinct in the wild. If you can, please go to Madagascar and find out if it's extinct or not.'" – Patricia Wright

Dr. Patricia Wright is an anthropologist, a conservationist, and a professor at Stony Brook University in New York, and she's probably the world's leading expert on lemurs.

There are over 100 species of lemurs, which are prosimians - a type of primate and they only exist on the island of Madagascar.

Patricia spends half her time, six months a year in Madagascar studying lemurs, and has done so since the 80s, when she discovered a new species of lemur, the Golden Bamboo Lemur, and she also established Ranomafana National Park. It is almost an understatement to say that Patricia is a trailblazer— she has done the impossible again and again.

Her story is will astound you.

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