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‘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
A critically endangered Cao-Vit gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) swings on a tree.

Wildlife don’t recognize borders, nor does climate change. Conservation should keep up

Jim Tan 28 Apr 2022
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022
A mother and baby gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.

Road projects threaten integrity of Uganda’s mountain gorilla stronghold

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Apr 2022
A monkey on a tree in Nepa

Monkeys, porcupines team up to destroy crops, Nepal’s farmers say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Apr 2022
Collage of Romi Castagnino, Mongabay reporter, and a gorilla

Protecting the last Cross-River gorillas | Chasing Deforestation

Romi Castagnino 14 Apr 2022
An infant bonobo photographed a few days after being released in the Ekolo ya Bonobo Community Reserve. Image courtesy by Cinita Garai/ Friends of Bonobos.

Bonobos torn from the wild make their return, with a helping hand

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Apr 2022
A Bornean orangutan in Indonesia

How many orangutans does $1 billion save? Depends how you spend it, study finds

Jim Tan 1 Apr 2022

Saving Nigeria’s gorillas was also meant to help communities. It hasn’t (analysis).

Orji Sunday 31 Mar 2022

Making room in the Atlantic Forest for the largest primate in the Americas

Bernardo Araujo, Duda Menegassi for ((o))eco 30 Mar 2022

Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Mar 2022

Civil conflict in Cameroon puts endangered chimpanzees in the crosshairs

Aminateh Nkemngu 15 Mar 2022
Chimpanzee

Patrols work, but community-based conservation needs a rethink, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2022

In Nigeria, a decade of payoffs boosted global wildlife trafficking hub

Ini Ekott 4 Mar 2022

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for March 2022

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2022
An okapi. Image by Steve Wilson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Refuge of endangered ‘African unicorn’ threatened by mining, poaching, deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2022

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

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022

Marauding monkeys on an Indonesian island point to environmental pressures

Yogi Eka Sahputra 23 Feb 2022

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