Welcome to Little Fireface Project

The Little Fireface Project (LFP), headed by Professor Anna Nekaris OBE, studies the ecology of the slow and slender lorises, and contributes to the conservation and ecology of loris species throughout their range. The Project’s scope of research encompasses behavioural ecology, museum studies, genetics, acoustics, taxonomy, conservation education and chemical ecology.

Our current main field project is on the Indonesian island of Java, where we have initiated the first-ever long-term study of a lorisiform primate in the wild – the Javan slow loris. At the same time, during country-wide surveys in forests and wildlife markets we also make observations of other obscure nocturnal animals, including colugos, pangolins, civets, small cats, mustelids and owls.