Cotswold Wildlife Park celebrates birth of Lemur Twins

It's the 70th Lemur breeding success in time for Lemur Week

Lemur breeding success
Published 28th May 2024
Last updated 28th May 2024

To highlight the plight of the world’s most endangered Lemurs, from 25 May – 2 June 2024, Cotswold Wildlife Park hosts its annual Lemur Week.

It's aim is to raise awareness and funds to help save the world’s most endangered Lemurs in their native homeland of Madagascar.

Just ahead of ‘Lemur Week’, the Primate team have announced two new additions with the birth of Ring-tailed Lemur twins.

These new arrivals bring the total number of Lemur breeding successes in the Park’s walk-through Lemur exhibit, Madagascar, to an impressive 70 since it officially opened in 2008.

The Park is also the only zoological collection in the world to have bred the critically endangered Greater Bamboo Lemur in the last twelve months (only seven other zoological collections in the world keep this threatened species).

In 2017 Cotswold Wildlife Park made history when it became the first zoological collection in Great Britain to successfully breed the critically endangered Crowned Sifaka.

Females are only sexually receptive for just one or two days a year so the window of opportunity for males to father offspring is small.

Cotswold Wildlife Park funds two major Lemur conservation projects in Madagascar Impact Madagascar and Helpsimus.

Impact Madagascar focuses on the conservation of Crowned Sifaka and works with the people of Madagascar to provide solutions for the problems of deforestation, pollution and poverty.

Helpsimus is committed to the conservation of Greater Bamboo Lemurs and protecting Madagascar’s biodiversity in cooperation with local communities.

Hear all the latest news from across the UK on the hour, every hour, on Greatest Hits Radio on DAB, smartspeaker, at greatesthitsradio.co.uk, and on the Rayo app.