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‘We are losing’: Q&A with The Orangutan Project’s Leif Cocks on saving the great ape

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Aug 2020

A genetic map hopes to trace rescued chimps back to their homes

Hannah Thomasy 17 Aug 2020

Cameroon halts logging plans in Ebo Forest, home to tool-using chimps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Aug 2020

More than 500 dams planned inside protected areas: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Aug 2020

‘Meaningless certification’: Study makes the case against ‘sustainable’ palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Aug 2020

Facial recognition tech for chimps looks to bust online ape trafficking

Colin Sytsma 4 Aug 2020

Say hello to Madagascar’s newest mouse lemur, a pint-sized primate

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Aug 2020

Endangered and endemic: Madagascar’s lemurs susceptible to coronavirus infection

Rivonala Razafison 31 Jul 2020

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Nigeria’s wildlife traders, who weathered Ebola, eye post-COVID-19 boom

Orji Sunday 17 Jul 2020

Dam that threatens orangutan habitat faces three-year delay

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2020

The woman building the forest corridors saving Brazil’s black lion tamarin

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2020

For the world’s rarest gorillas, a troubled sanctuary

Linus Unah 13 Jul 2020

10-year plan hopes to give western chimpanzees a fighting chance

Jim Tan 10 Jul 2020

A third of Madagascar’s lemur species on the brink of extinction, IUCN warns

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Jul 2020

Camera snaps first ever glimpse of a troop of the world’s rarest gorilla

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jul 2020

Treetop cameras capture first known video of a wild roloway monkey

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2020

In Madagascar’s dry forests, COVID-19 sparks an intense, early fire season

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Jun 2020

Animals have culture, too, and for some it’s crucial to their survival and conservation

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2020

‘Rafiki’s trust was betrayed’: Q&A with conservationist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jun 2020
A chimpanzee munches on a cacao fruit on a plantation in Bossou, Guinea. Image courtesy of Nicola Bryson-Morrison.

Chimps prefer human crops, scientists find — and it’s better for them

Elizabeth Fitt 18 Jun 2020

One-two punch of drought, pandemic hits Madagascar’s poor and its wildlife

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Jun 2020

Mystery ailments, asymptomatic individuals: Spotlight on monkeypox in chimps

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jun 2020

Loss, resilience and community amid an outbreak: Q&A with gorilla researcher Magdalena Bermejo

Heather Richardson 4 Jun 2020

Marijuana cultivation whittling away Madagascar’s largest connected forest

Edward Carver 29 May 2020

When the world’s rarest primate couples up, it’s a win for the species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 May 2020

For the western chimpanzee, sanctuaries are more than just a last resort

Mark Hillsdon 26 May 2020

What is an Olive baboon? Candid Animal Cam heads to Africa

Romi Castagnino 26 May 2020

For Freedom the gorilla, a months-long journey back to the wilds of Cameroon

Tina Deines 19 May 2020

As habitat degradation threatens Amazon species, one region offers hope

Taran Volckhausen 14 May 2020

‘They never intended to conserve it’: Outcry as loggers gut Cambodian reserve

Andrew Nachemson 13 May 2020
Brookesia chameleon in the rainforest of Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

As visitors vanish, Madagascar’s protected areas suffer a ‘devastating’ blow

Malavika Vyawahare 5 May 2020

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