(Clockwise from top right): Biologist Patricia
Wright, who has gained a reputation for collecting data on hard-to-track species, with
Madagascar’s golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus). Wright’s field research has
been key to understanding the behavior of
elusive primates (bottom right); and she has
led treks through the jungles of Peru, Borneo,
and Madagascar (bottom left). But all these
efforts arguably pale in comparison to her
conservation of Madagascar’s Ranomafana
National Park (top left), a wildlife treasure of
just under 100,000 acres of dense rainforest.
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