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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
A white-nosed saki.

To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction

Sean Mowbray 27 Oct 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022
An orangutan under treatment.

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022

Technology makes studying wildlife easier, but access isn’t equal

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Oct 2022

Study highlights ‘friends with benefits’ relation between gorillas and chimps

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022
Pygmy loris

The slow, toxic and sleepy life of lorises is coded in their genes

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2022
A bonobo

Easygoing bonobos accepting of outsiders, study says

Charles Mpaka 10 Oct 2022
Bua Noi in her enclosure

Thai zoos come under scrutiny again as tourism rebounds from COVID-19

Shannon Brault 10 Oct 2022

As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the data?

Philip Jacobson 3 Oct 2022
A Madame Berthe's mouse lemur. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

World’s smallest primate is fading into extinction, scientists fear

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Sep 2022
Two chimpanzees in the wild

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

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2022
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022
Sumatran elephants play in water.

With less than 10 years to save Sumatran elephants, what’s being done?

Mike DiGirolamo 6 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
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Endangered species listing of long-tailed macaques: ‘shocking, painful, predictable’ (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 17 Aug 2022
Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), found in the Neotropics. Image courtesy of Priscila Pereira.

Indigenous lands, knowledge are essential for saving primates from extinction, says new study

Kimberley Brown 11 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 male Barbary macaque with a baby.

Hundreds of iconic Barbary macaques feared dead in Morocco forest fire

Anna Weekes 5 Aug 2022

As roads and railways threaten primates, Brazil is a global hotspot

Dimas Marques 2 Aug 2022
Ulu MUda's forests are home to the endangered lar gibbon (Hylobates lar). Habitat loss is one of the species' primary threats. Image by JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern Malaysia’s most important water catchment

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 28 Jul 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

Inside Sierra Leone’s Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary

Ashoka Mukpo 11 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

How Brazil is working to save the rare lion tamarins of the Atlantic Forest

Daniele Bragança, Duda Menegassi 1 Jun 2022
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Ecotours aimed at saving monkeys are likely stressing them out, study finds

John Cannon 23 May 2022

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