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Congo government opens Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to oil exploration

John Cannon 18 Jul 2019

Orangutan habitats being cleared in areas near palm oil mills, report finds

Loren Bell 17 Jul 2019

Agriculture, mining, hunting push critically endangered gorillas to the brink

Rachel Fritts 16 Jul 2019
Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema), a species threatened by the Madagascar rosewood trade. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Study finds lemurs in degraded Madagascar forest skinny and stunted

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jul 2019
Sakondry, ready to eat. Image by Brian Fisher.

Eat the insects, spare the lemurs

Emilie Filou 11 Jul 2019
Camera trap photo of a chimpanzee with mangoes.

Chimps in Sierra Leone adapt to human-impacted habitats, but threats remain

Ini Ekott 10 Jul 2019
Bulldozers parked in a muddy clearing near near Okuni, Cross River State, Nigeria

In Nigeria, a highway threatens community and conservation interests

Linus Unah 9 Jul 2019

New protected area in Bolivia is nearly as large as Yellowstone in the US

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2019

Food choice leaves some lemurs more vulnerable to loss of forest habitat

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jun 2019

Logging road construction has surged in the Congo Basin since 2003

John Cannon 24 Jun 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

Leopards get a $20m boost from Panthera pact with Saudi prince

John Cannon 14 Jun 2019

Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo

Nina Finley 12 Jun 2019

Inside an ambitious project to rewild trafficked bonobos in the Congo Basin

Christopher Clark 11 Jun 2019

Why more women should be included in the leadership of Virunga National Park (commentary)

Judith Verweijen, Janvier Murairi, Esther Marijnen 5 Jun 2019

Lemur yoga: Fueling the capture of wild lemurs? (commentary)

Kim Reuter, Marni Lafleur 3 Jun 2019

For Sri Lanka villagers, monkey business feeds off human actions

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 May 2019

In a first, chimps found bashing tortoises against trees to get at the meat

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes

Orji Sunday 29 May 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Documentary on world’s rarest ape generates film festival buzz

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2019

For India’s imperiled apes, thinking locally matters

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 23 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

Jennifer O’Mahony 21 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

Social media enables the illegal wildlife pet trade in Malaysia

John Cannon 9 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against ‘unfair’ claims

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

Saving forests and biodiversity by providing affordable healthcare

Mike Gaworecki 30 Apr 2019

That Malagasy forest featured in Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’? It’s vanishing fast

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Apr 2019

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