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A mountain gorilla encountered during a gorilla tourism trek in Uganda.

Gorilla permit fraud dents community-led conservation efforts in Uganda

Malavika Vyawahare, Nangayi Guyson 27 Oct 2023
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023

Deforestation for palm oil continues in Indonesia’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Sep 2023

World’s top sovereign fund latest to cut ties with dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2023

Migrating orangutan males imitate locals to learn about food: Study

Basten Gokkon 19 Jul 2023
Mother and baby orangutans.

Orangutan ‘beatboxing’ offers clues about human language, study says

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jun 2023
A Bornean orangutan in Indonesia

Why did the orangutan cross the toll road to Indonesia’s new capital city?

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023

Camera trap images of rare gorillas with infants bring hope in DRC

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2023

World’s newest great ape faces habitat loss, multiple threats: Will it survive?

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2023
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Guinea’s crab-fishing chimps are in good health, study shows, but threats loom

Ryan Truscott 3 Apr 2023

Palm oil deforestation hits record high in Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2023
A female bonobo.

DRC’s endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria

Ryan Truscott 22 Mar 2023

Orangutan death in Sumatra points to human-wildlife conflict, illegal trade

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 6 Mar 2023

In Sumatra, increased orangutan sightings point to growing threats to the apes

Hans Nicholas Jong, Tonggo Simangunsong 1 Mar 2023
A Djouroutou chimpanzee cracks open a panda nut on a wooden anvil. Photo credit: Liran Samuni, Taï Chimpanzee Project

Chimpanzee nut cracking leaves telltale marks on stones, providing clues to human evolution

Kate Hull 13 Dec 2022
An orangutan.

Fears for academic freedom as Indonesia doubles down on scientists’ ban

Hans Nicholas Jong, Lusia Arumingtyas 9 Dec 2022
Mother and baby orangutans.

What can Half or Whole Earth conservation strategies do for orangutans?

John Cannon 28 Nov 2022

Indonesia’s orangutans declining amid ‘lax’ and ‘laissez-faire’ law enforcement

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2022

Mountain gorilla reproduction slows with female transfers, study shows

Ini Ekott 24 Nov 2022

Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Nov 2022
An orangutan under treatment.

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
A bonobo

Easygoing bonobos accepting of outsiders, study says

Charles Mpaka 10 Oct 2022
Two chimpanzees in the wild

Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2022

‘Cursed’ dam project in orangutan habitat claims 16th life in less than 2 years

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2022
A leopard in a tree

Snares: Low-tech, low-profile killers of rare wildlife the world over

Laurel Neme 18 Aug 2022
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022
A chimpanzee digs a well as another adult chimpanzee with an infant watches.

Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 28 Jul 2022
A male orangutan in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2022

Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2022
A chimpanzee in the Congo rainforests

Data from droppings: Researchers draw up a genetic ID map for chimps

Charles Mpaka 1 Jul 2022
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022

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