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New survey nearly doubles Grauer’s gorilla population, but threats remain

Ed Holt 22 Jun 2021
Philippine tarsier

Researchers look to locals to fill knowledge gap on Philippine tarsier

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jun 2021

Deforestation spikes in Virunga National Park, DRC

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jun 2021

It’s an ‘incredibly exciting’ time for the field of bioacoustics

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jun 2021

For Africa’s great apes, a post-pandemic future looks beyond tourism

Heather Richardson 9 Jun 2021
Africa's largest population of eastern chimpanzees live in Bili-Uéré. Image by gombe069 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern DRC protected areas

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2021

Lean times leave orangutans wasting away. Habitat loss makes things worse

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2021

Did you know that spix’s night monkeys only weigh around 1 kg?

Romi Castagnino 19 May 2021

FSC-certified Indonesian logger may have cleared orangutan habitat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 May 2021
Black Lion Tamarin

How settlers, scientists, and a women-led industry saved Brazil’s rarest primate

Liz Kimbrough 14 May 2021

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

James Fair 4 May 2021

Deadly landslide hits Indonesian dam project in orangutan habitat, again

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Apr 2021

Female putty-nosed monkeys get their males to run defense against predators

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2021
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2021

Caring for those ‘just like us’: Q&A with vet and great ape advocate Rick Quinn

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2021
Image of a female lion with wildebeest kill in Tanzania. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Total’s East African oil pipeline to go ahead despite stiff opposition

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2021

Madagascar: Businesses drive disappearance of a wetland ‘reed forest’

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2021

Thriving population of endangered monkeys gives hope to conservationists

Veronika Perkova 23 Mar 2021

Unrelated adoptions by bonobos may point to altruistic traits, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2021

Did you know that stump-tailed macaques can go bald?

Romi Castagnino 23 Mar 2021

Secretive group found to have cleared orangutan habitat in Indonesia: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2021

The Hungry Mills: How palm oil mills drive deforestation (commentary)

Rob McWilliam 12 Mar 2021
Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Slash-and-burn farming eats away at a Madagascar haven for endangered lemurs, frogs

Edward Carver 9 Mar 2021

The singing apes of Sumatra need rescuing, too (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 3 Mar 2021
A Bornean orangutan. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study

John Cannon 26 Feb 2021

Rescue of rare white tarsier raises fears of habitat loss, illegal pet trade

Basten Gokkon 10 Feb 2021

As the Amazon unravels into savanna, its wildlife will also suffer

Luís Patriani 10 Feb 2021

Omens and optimism for Sumatran orangutans

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2021
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo

John Cannon 26 Jan 2021

Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2021

First COVID-19 cases in zoo gorillas raise alarm about wild populations

Mongabay.com 12 Jan 2021

Historical data point to ‘imminent extinction’ of Tapanuli orangutan

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2021

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