[4][5] The organization has initiated more than a dozen community-based conservation programs including several silky sifaka research projects.

[8]: 4  Bodry-Sanders was alerted to the need for conservation effort for lemurs by paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, her colleague at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Camp Indri offers educational lessons geared towards children, youths, and adults that teach environmental conservation.

LCF also runs programs aimed at protecting local habitats and curbing deforestation, which included planting 6,000 trees in 2016.

[12] LCF also partners with nurses from Marie Stopes Madagascar, a healthcare non-profit, to provide sustainable agriculture training, promote fuel-efficient stoves, ecotourism, and environmental education.

[14] In Marojejy National Park in northern Madagascar, LCF brings young students in to teach them about endangered species and threats to their habitat.

In January 2005, LCF began a new fundraising drive with a goal of $3 million to be used to expand the lemur population to 50 and open the facility to select guests by way of an observation deck.