page_title: Lemur Conservation Foundation
section_title: Myakka City
hierarchical_section_title: Lemur Conservation Foundation / Reserves and operations / Myakka City
caption_attribution_description: English: Ring tailed lemurs at Lemur Conservation Foundation
context_page_description: The Lemur Conservation Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and conservation of the primates of Madagascar through managed breeding, scientific research, education, and art. It was founded in 1996 by Penelope Bodry-Sanders under the advisement of paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall. The foundation's reserve in Myakka City, Florida, United States, is home to more than 50 lemurs of several different species, most of which are critically endangered or endangered, including ring-tailed lemurs, red ruffed lemurs, mongoose lemurs, collared brown lemurs, common brown lemurs and Sanford's lemurs.
  The Lemur Conservation Foundation maintains an active office in northeastern Madagascar and supports conservation initiatives with a focus on community and habitat protection programs in and around Anjanaharibe-Sud Reserve and Marojejy National Park. LCF offers internship opportunities in primate husbandry and research. The organization has initiated more than a dozen community-based conservation programs including several silky sifaka research projects.
context_section_description: The first 11 lemur residents of the reserve in Myakka City arrived in 1999 from the Duke Lemur Center. The Florida-based facility had its opening ceremony in 2000. Two years later, the reserve had its first birth, a mongoose lemur named Alexandro.
  Initially, the reserve primarily focused on behavioral research. By 2005, it had grown into a well-established conservation and research institution housing about 20 lemurs in a section bordered by a chain-link fence. The facility was already being utilized by the University of Miami and New College of Florida for training and research. In the summer of 2005, the reserve completed construction on a larger second enclosure.
  As of 2016, the foundation owns more than 120 acres (49 ha) where there are two free-range forests of 8 acres (3.2 ha) and 13 acres (5.3 ha) each, with the remaining land serving as native wildlife habitat or buffer zone for the reserve. There were plans to add a third enclosure of about 15 acres (6.1 ha) to include a clinic and a larger quarantine area.
caption: Ring-tailed lemurs at the Myakka City reserve
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