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A Sumatran orangutan.

Gold miners breach a crucial refuge for rescued Sumatran orangutans

Junaidi Hanafiah 31 Aug 2026

Indonesia charges 72 over fires as haze chokes Borneo and Sumatra

Naina Rao 25 Aug 2026

Why every endangered species needs a champion: a conversation with conservationist Bill Konstant

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Aug 2026
Sumatran orangutan. Image © herpingvietnam via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Orangutan Day: Here’s where the three critically endangered species stand

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2026
Steve Smit. From his Facebook page

Steve Smit, South Africa’s “Monkey Man,” has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2026
Bulan and Badar.

Rescued from traffickers, reintroduced orangutan becomes mother in the wild

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 Aug 2026

Indonesia’s wildfire season surges as haze spreads into Malaysia

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Aug 2026

Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
A capped langur

New ropeways aim to save wildlife in Bangladesh’s fragmented habitats

Sadiqur Rahman 11 Aug 2026
Chimpanzees at Tacugama

What makes chimpanzee conservation last? Lessons from Sierra Leone

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026

Flames reach edge of orangutan rehabilitation center, with fire season set to intensify

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Aug 2026
The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) is found in Yunnan, China. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr. (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Protecting primates could protect thousands of other species, study finds

Muhammad Talal 7 Aug 2026

On the frontlines of conservation in Sumatra: Rangers safeguard Batutegi forest

Basten Gokkon 7 Aug 2026
The Alta Floresta titi monkey is the symbol of Alta Floresta bridges program. Image courtesy of Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and Projeto Reconecta.

Amazon canopy bridges enable 15,000 wildlife crossings without a single roadkill

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2026

How rescued orangutans are rebuilding a new wild population in Sumatra

Nanang Sujana, Sandy Watt 3 Aug 2026

US declines to protect endangered monkeys used in medical research

Bobby Bascomb 31 Jul 2026
Two golden lion tamarins in Brazil.

Researchers find ‘priority zones’ for yellow fever vaccination of golden lion tamarins

Alex Megerle 30 Jul 2026

Women’s collectives are protecting Nigeria’s gorilla wildlife sanctuary

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2026
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Jul 2026

Winners of the annual Mangrove Photography Awards: See the photos

Bobby Bascomb 24 Jul 2026
A black-faced black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) crossing one of the multilayered bridges. Image courtesy of Sergio Leal.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Suzana Camargo 21 Jul 2026
Under difficult circumstances when food is scarce, capuchin monkeys alter their behavior.

How Costa Rica’s extreme climate changes the social behaviors of white-faced capuchin

Adam Litchkofski 17 Jul 2026
Likweli, a new-to-science species of colobus monkey described from the DRC. Image courtesy of Bernard Bonanga.

New colobus monkey, ‘Likweli’, confirmed in DRC

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jul 2026
Investigators with Agent C Wildlife Initiative documented a baby pangolin available for sale in Vientiane's Dongmakkhay Market. Pangolins are repeatedly sold for their meat, scales and sometimes for making wine. Image supplied by Agent C Wildlife Initiative.

Laos’s illegal wildlife shops keep growing despite enforcement, investigators find

Gerald Flynn 15 Jul 2026

Celebrating World Chimpanzee Day

David Brown 14 Jul 2026

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jul 2026
A rhesus macaque eats an orange in Kathmandu. Image by Rachid H via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Monkey vs machine: Nepal tests AI to fight crop-raiding macaques

Praveen Kumar Yadav 13 Jul 2026
A red ruffed lemur in Madagascar.

Official tied to commercial breeding to represent US at global wildlife trade meeting

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jul 2026
Photograph of a Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) submitted by a KehatiKu citizen observer.

Can a photo save orangutans?

Juan Maza 11 Jul 2026
A western chimpanzee at Tacugama.

Conserving Sierra Leone’s western chimpanzees: Interview with Tacugama’s Willie Tucker

Patricia Sia Ngevao 10 Jul 2026

How effective are canopy bridges really?

Bobby Bascomb 9 Jul 2026

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