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A cotton-top tamarin.

Effort to save rare Colombian monkey looks to crowdfund its conservation

Aimee Gabay 5 Jul 2023
Mother and baby orangutans.

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

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jun 2023
A gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Big potential and immense challenges for great ape conservation in the Congo Basin, experts say

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Jun 2023
Loris

When “cute” is cruel: Social media videos stoke loris pet trade, study says

Carolyn Cowan 27 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
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

After Sri Lanka, Nepal debates exporting its ‘problematic’ monkeys

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 May 2023

Proposal to export 100,000 crop-raiding macaques sparks outcry in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Apr 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
Tapanuli Orangutans found near YEL's orangutan study camp in the Batang Toru forest. Image by Aditya Sumitra/Mighty Earth.

Fight for survival: The battle to save the last Tapanuli orangutans

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 14 Apr 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2023
A female Tapanuli orangutan.

Saving the last Tapanuli orangutans

Lucia Torres 13 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
A pair of the critically endangered Hainan gibbons.

To save Hainan gibbons, Earth’s rarest primate, experts roll out the big tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Mar 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

Nepal’s community forest program misses the biodiversity for the trees

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Feb 2023

Swinging to safety: How canopy bridges may save Costa Rica’s howlers

Noah Tobias 15 Feb 2023
A mother and baby macaque.

Ebola-like African primate viruses ‘poised for spillover’ to humans, study finds

Mactilda Mbenywe 21 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022
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
A Humboldt’s woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) explores the forest floor in Colombia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Some tree-dwelling primates may adapt more easily to life on the ground, massive study shows

Elise Overgaard 2 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
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022

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