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Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2025
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CITES secretariat urges suspension of Cambodian long-tailed macaque trade

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2025
A stocky man in a white cap and grey and white dashiki holds up a thick manila envelope of documents of his demolished property, red marker announcing its contents. Image courtesy Kemi Adelagun.

Nigeria’s new coastal highway runs over communities & biodiversity hotspots

Ini Ekott 30 Jan 2025
Three Tonkin snub nosed monkeys on a tree branch

Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys were found in only two places on Earth. Now it’s one

Sean Mowbray 27 Dec 2024
A southern patas monkey (Erythrocebus baumstarki) sits on the branch of a tree in the Serengeti. Image courtesy Katie Sanborn.

Gum-eating Tanzanian monkey is AWOL, fueling extinction fears

Ryan Truscott 9 Dec 2024
Oluwa's forest are home to many species threatened with extinction, including this red-capped mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus). Image by Rufus46 via Wikimedia Commons (CC SA 3.0).

A Nigerian reserve, once a stronghold for chimps, is steadily losing its forest to farming

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Nov 2024
The genetically confirmed hybrid (right) with its capped langur mother at Satchari National Park.

Langurs in Bangladesh face extinction as hybridization between species escalates

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 25 Oct 2024

Wildlife-rich mangroves suffer as Indonesia ramps up construction of new capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2024

DRC’s golden-bellied mangabeys: A little-known but much-threatened monkey

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2024

How these howler monkeys recovered from near extinction

25 Jul 2024
An endangered Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei).

‘A harmonious human-primate society’: Interview with Whitley winner Kuenzang Dorji

Choki Wangmo 17 Jul 2024

Camera-trap study brings the lesula, Congo’s cryptic monkey, into focus

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Jun 2024

Brazil takes pioneering action — and a vaccine — to rewild howler monkeys

Bernardo Araujo 10 May 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024

Ecuador project empowers cacao farmers to save spider monkey habitat

Astrid Arellano 6 Mar 2024
A Müller's gibbon.

Male dominance isn’t the default in primate societies, new study shows

Tina Deines 4 Mar 2024
A southern pig-tailed macaques infant.

‘Shocking’ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm plantations

Spoorthy Raman 27 Feb 2024

Skywalker gibbons confirmed in Myanmar for the first time

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2024
A close shot of a black mangabey monkey (Lophocebus.aterrimus) in 3/4 profile, showing off its grey whiskers and funky mohawk crest. Image by Nathan Rupert via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Togo monkey seizure turns spotlight on illicit wildlife trafficking from DR Congo

Didier Makal 8 Jan 2024

Brazil’s mammals help humanity, but those services are at risk, study says

Liz Kimbrough 15 Dec 2023
Red colobus monkey in Uganda. Image by Julie Kearney Wasserman via U.S. National Science Foundation.

Are flame retardants about to burn a hole in biodiversity? (commentary)

Marta Venier, Michael Wasserman 13 Nov 2023
Skywalker hoolock gibbon

Myanmar’s primates and their guardians need more support, study says

Carolyn Cowan 30 Oct 2023
A mother long-tailed macaque with her young

Habitat loss drove long-tailed macaques extinct in Bangladesh, experts say

Rafiqul Islam 29 Sep 2023
A deer catptured for bushmeat in the DRC.

Study: Wild meat trade from Africa into Belgium a health and conservation risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2023

Oil palms may be magnet for macaques, boars, at expense of other biodiversity

Carolyn Cowan 7 Aug 2023

Poverty-fueled deforestation of Nigerian reserve slashes hope for rare chimps

Orji Sunday 10 Jul 2023

The biologist working to save Peru’s yellow-tailed monkey: Q&A with Fanny Cornejo

Astrid Arellano 7 Jul 2023
A kipunji.

Meet the kipunji: A rare primate success story in Tanzania

Ruth Kamnitzer 5 Jul 2023
A cotton-top tamarin.

Effort to save rare Colombian monkey looks to crowdfund its conservation

Aimee Gabay 5 Jul 2023
A long-tailed macaque.

Sumatra’s young primate whisperer brings bullhorn to macaque conservation

Barita News Lumbanbatu 5 Jun 2023

Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon, Didier Makal 30 May 2023

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