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Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022

The chimp doctor will see you now: Medicating apes boost the case for conservation

Manon Verchot 16 Feb 2022

Endangered chimps ‘on the brink’ as Nigerian reserve is razed for agriculture, timber

Orji Sunday 31 Dec 2021
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Deadly raids are latest case of abuse against Indigenous Batwa in DRC park, groups say

Laurel Sutherland 21 Dec 2021

Lockdown underscores Uganda’s overreliance on tourism to fund conservation

Nangayi Guyson 21 Dec 2021

Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2021

U.K. conglomerate Jardines ‘caught red-handed’ clearing orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2021

For world’s rarest gorillas, camera traps prove pivotal for protection

Gianluca Cerullo 23 Nov 2021

Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2021

Think that GIF of the smoking chimp is funny? The chimp wasn’t laughing

Tina Deines 17 Nov 2021

In rural Nigeria, the magic of cinema builds support for ape conservation

Orji Sunday 15 Nov 2021

Outgunned by militants, rangers fear for chimpanzees in southwest Mali

Lucrèce Aminata Kanté 5 Nov 2021
A chainsaw cuts through timber near Afi River Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday.

Deforestation soars in Nigeria’s gorilla habitat: ‘We are running out of time’

Orji Sunday 29 Oct 2021

On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes

Orji Sunday 25 Oct 2021

COVID could wreak havoc on gorillas, but they social distance better than we do

Ryan Truscott 22 Oct 2021
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In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Oct 2021

High risk, low pay for DRC rangers entrusted to guard a gorilla sanctuary

David Kalinga Safari 8 Oct 2021

Gorilla baby boom sparks hope in DRC, but threats to great apes persist

Claude Sengenya 6 Oct 2021
Baby western lowland gorilla, Cameroon. Image by Alan Duncan Hamilton via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park

Mongabay 5 Oct 2021

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
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Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

For male chimps looking to mate, an entourage is the way to go, study finds

Ed Holt 30 Aug 2021

L.A.-sized tract of primary forest went up in flames in DRC province in 2020

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Aug 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

Warming climate means scientists may have overcounted bonobos, study says

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 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

Without room to expand, mountain gorillas’ population growth could backfire

Ini Ekott 29 Jun 2021

Not all rescued animals should be released back to the wild (commentary)

Gregg Tully 24 Jun 2021

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