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Oil palm company takes lead on sustainable agriculture in Gabon

John Cannon 15 Mar 2016

Despite population revision, Sumatran orangutans still ‘on the road to extinction’

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2016

Even minor forest disturbance can cause great ape population crashes

Rachel Nuwer 7 Mar 2016

Study doubles the number of endangered Sumatran orangutans believed to exist

Loren Bell 4 Mar 2016

Communities and cutting-edge tech keep Cambodia’s gibbons singing

Claire Salisbury 22 Feb 2016

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids

Sean Mowbray 16 Feb 2016

Focus on great apes, draws attention from other species, finds study

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

Chimpanzee mother seen caring for severely disabled baby in the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Nov 2015

Sarawak pledges to protect its last remaining orangutans

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Sep 2015

Trapped between zoo and sanctuary: the dilemma of the institutionalized ape named Sandra (commentary)

Shawn Thompson 26 Aug 2015

New group hopes to raise global profile of the peace-loving bonobo

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2015

DRC mulls changing Virunga’s boundaries for oil

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2015

Half of Borneo’s mammals could lose a third of their habitat by 2080

John Cannon 22 Jan 2015

Endangered chimp habitat under threat from climate change

John Cannon 22 Jan 2015

Scandal and intrigue overshadow environment at the Simandou mine in Guinea

Daniel Stiles - Mongabay Special Reporting Assignment Fellow 20 Jan 2015

Camera traps capture rare footage of wild bonobos (video)

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2014

Bamboo could help fight global warming

Julian Moll-rocek 11 Dec 2014

New calendar celebrates primates and raises money for their survival

Annam Raza 26 Nov 2014

Flying under the radar in Central Africa, Chinese companies may be wreaking environmental havoc

Analysis Daniel Stiles - Mongabay Special Reporting Assignment Fellow 7 Nov 2014

World’s rarest gorilla gets a new protected home

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2014

Coal, climate and orangutans – Indonesia’s quandary

Daniel Stiles 21 Oct 2014

Walking the walk: zoo kicks off campaign for orangutans and sustainable palm oil

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2014

Jane Goodall joins mongabay

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2014

Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?

John Cannon 10 Oct 2014

The Zanaga iron ore mine – a test of best laid plans for preserving wildlife

Daniel Stiles 6 Oct 2014

From ‘production’ forests to protected forests, groups work to save Sumatran orangutan habitat. But will it be enough?

Ethan Harfenist 16 Sep 2014

Why are great apes treated like second-class species by CITES?

Daniel Stiles Of Pegas (project To End Great Ape Slavery) 11 Sep 2014

How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 5 Aug 2014

Ndoki Forest, charmed or cursed? Conservationists admit sustainable logging wilting in naïve chimp habitat

Daniel Stiles 1 Aug 2014

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