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Causes for celebration, and concern, on World Gorilla Day

Isabel Esterman 24 Sep 2021

For World Gorilla Day 2021, a conservation success story

Tara Stoinski 23 Sep 2021
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Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2021

For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021

In DRC, community ownership of forests helps guard the Grauer’s gorilla

Marlowe Starling 6 Jul 2021

New survey nearly doubles Grauer’s gorilla population, but threats remain

Ed Holt 22 Jun 2021

For Africa’s great apes, a post-pandemic future looks beyond tourism

Heather Richardson 9 Jun 2021

Caring for those ‘just like us’: Q&A with vet and great ape advocate Rick Quinn

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2021

First COVID-19 cases in zoo gorillas raise alarm about wild populations

Mongabay.com 12 Jan 2021

Conservation must be primary goal of great ape tourism, despite COVID-driven recessions (commentary)

Trang Chu Minh 12 Nov 2020
Tanzanian women carry new beehives into the forest. Photo by Felipe Rodriguez/APW

Beyond tourism: A call for business ideas that protect African wildlife, ecosystems

Heather Richardson 16 Sep 2020

Cameroon halts logging plans in Ebo Forest, home to tool-using chimps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Aug 2020

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Nigeria’s wildlife traders, who weathered Ebola, eye post-COVID-19 boom

Orji Sunday 17 Jul 2020

For the world’s rarest gorillas, a troubled sanctuary

Linus Unah 13 Jul 2020

Camera snaps first ever glimpse of a troop of the world’s rarest gorilla

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jul 2020

Loss, resilience and community amid an outbreak: Q&A with gorilla researcher Magdalena Bermejo

Heather Richardson 4 Jun 2020

For Freedom the gorilla, a months-long journey back to the wilds of Cameroon

Tina Deines 19 May 2020
ICCN ranger with a gorilla in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image courtesy Nelis Wolmarans.

Twelve rangers killed in latest Virunga Park incident

Fred Kockott 25 Apr 2020
Mountain gorilla in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

For great apes at risk of infection, COVID-19 is also an economic threat

Heather Richardson 13 Apr 2020

National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to great apes

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Mar 2020

Keeping gorillas safe amid COVID-19 concerns

Liz Kimbrough 24 Mar 2020

To save Cross River gorillas, EU-funded program aims to empower communities

Linus Unah 20 Mar 2020

Western lowland gorillas may be territorial, a new study finds

Liz Kimbrough 12 Mar 2020

Camera traps confirm presence of lowland gorillas in central mainland Equatorial Guinea for first time in over a decade

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2020

Mountain gorilla census reveals further increase in numbers

John Cannon 17 Dec 2019
A yaws-infected adult gorilla with red lesions mainly located on its face. Photo by Céline Genton/Université de Rennes 1

Female gorillas recognize and respond to contagious disease

Lara Streiff 25 Nov 2019

Agriculture, mining, hunting push critically endangered gorillas to the brink

Rachel Fritts 16 Jul 2019
Bulldozers parked in a muddy clearing near near Okuni, Cross River State, Nigeria

In Nigeria, a highway threatens community and conservation interests

Linus Unah 9 Jul 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

Why more women should be included in the leadership of Virunga National Park (commentary)

Judith Verweijen | Janvier Murairi | Esther Marijnen 5 Jun 2019

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