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A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Enforcement, development and education define efforts to save Vietnam’s rare primates

Michael Tatarski 15 Jan 2017

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017

Meet the new ‘Skywalker’ gibbon

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jan 2017

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Colleen Kimmett 4 Jan 2017

Newscast #8: Top new species discoveries of 2016, and how fig trees can save rainforests

Mike Gaworecki 27 Dec 2016

Photos: Top 20 new species of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2016

Study looks at positive and negative impacts of biodiversity offsets on local communities

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2016

Explore the “Wonders of the Annamites” in this new children’s book

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2016

Bastion of biodiversity protected in eastern DRC

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2016

Video: Two rescued pet orangutans return to the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Dec 2016

New population of rare Myanmar snub-nosed monkey discovered in China

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Dec 2016

Home for the holidays: Chimp exits war-torn Iraq, lands in Kenya

Geoffrey Kamadi 12 Dec 2016

Watch video of baby slow loris born to mother rescued from wildlife traffickers

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Dec 2016
Orangutans Pongo spp. held at a Thai government-run rescue centre prior to repatriation to Indonesia. Photo credit: Claire Beastall/TRAFFIC.

Thailand failing to stop illegal trade in apes due to inadequate legislation

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Dec 2016

Newscast #6: Carl Safina on marine conservation and Trump

Mike Gaworecki 29 Nov 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Conservation in oil palm is possible (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 25 Nov 2016

Female chimpanzees wait for their turn at the top of the social pecking order

Aylin Woodward 23 Nov 2016
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

Hunting stymies rainforest regrowth, says a new study

John Cannon 10 Nov 2016

Nigerian superhighway project draws international attention over threats to local communities and wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 2 Nov 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 4: Inside scoop on new Netflix documentary “The Ivory Game;” orangutan habitat under threat in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2016

Company poised to destroy critical orangutan habitat in breach of Indonesia’s moratorium

Erik Meijaard 24 Oct 2016

Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis

John Cannon 24 Oct 2016

Park ranger murdered while trying to protect rare gorillas

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2016

Nigerian drill monkeys’ fast-disappearing haven

Shannon Cuthbert 14 Oct 2016

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2016

Fires driving deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2016

International trade in Barbary macaques banned

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Sep 2016

Alaska’s salmon and Vietnam’s doucs: wildlife narratives by Producer Tim Plowden

Shannon Cuthbert 26 Sep 2016

Calls for CITES to address the corruption fueling the illegal wildlife trade

Mike Gaworecki 23 Sep 2016

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