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Bellavista no more: Peru’s infamous wildlife market reduced to rubble

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 17 Dec 2015

200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Dec 2015

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

Meet the world’s 25 most endangered primates

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Nov 2015

U.S. National Institutes of Health to stop using chimpanzees for research altogether

Mike Gaworecki 24 Nov 2015

Eden Besieged: Amazonia’s Matchless Wildlife Pillaged by Traffickers

William H. Funk 23 Nov 2015
These baby orangutans were confiscated from a trafficker in Indonesia's Aceh province in 2015. Photo by Junaidi Hanafiah.

First-ever conviction for orangutan trafficking in Aceh

Chik Rini 23 Nov 2015

Palm oil company revs up deforestation in Malaysia

Ethan Harfenist 19 Nov 2015

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

Superhighway construction surges forward in Nigeria

John Cannon 17 Nov 2015

Chimpanzee mother seen caring for severely disabled baby in the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Nov 2015
Sumatran tiger

Aceh’s priceless Leuser Ecosystem still shrinking as oil palm spreads

Cory Rogers 17 Nov 2015

Cameroon convicts activist campaigning against palm oil company

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Nov 2015
Young orangutan orphaned by the palm oil industry when its mother was killed in a plantation in Central Kalimantan. This orangutan was one of the lucky ones -- it ended up in a rehabilitation center rather than dying of starvation or being sold into the pet trade.

Greenwashing? RSPO audits rife with ‘mistakes and fraud,’ report finds

Jonathan Vit 16 Nov 2015

Latin American illegal wildlife trade exploding in scope and scale

Laurel Neme 4 Nov 2015

Indonesia breathes easier for now as haze recedes and rain falls

Mongabay Haze Beat 3 Nov 2015

Indonesian wildfire disaster threatens virgin forest in Borneo

Mongabay Haze Beat 29 Oct 2015

Bali’s mountain dwellers govern with ancient palm leaf treatises

Luh De Suriyani 29 Oct 2015

São Paolo Trafficking: Smuggling Brazil’s Wildlife

Sharon Guynup 28 Oct 2015

Under-fire Jokowi prepares biggest shift yet in Indonesian haze

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Oct 2015

Indonesia hesitates on emergency status for haze; Islamic council sees ‘warning from God’

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Oct 2015
Juvenile syntype of the Golden-crowned langur (Presbytis johnaspinalli). Courtesy of Nardelli 2015.

Bird market photo yields an unknown monkey species in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Oct 2015

Indonesia readies shelter ships as haze last resort after #EvacuateUs hits Twitter

Mongabay Haze Beat 22 Oct 2015

Partnerships are key to The Wildlife Conservation Society’s new conservation strategy

Mike Gaworecki 21 Oct 2015

German man arrested in Jakarta with eight earless lizards

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2015

Jokowi enforcer roasts APP supplier while Kalimantan orangutan charity reels from fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Oct 2015

The Muriqui: Brazil’s critically endangered “hippie monkey” hangs tough

Elizabeth Devitt 12 Oct 2015

Identifying and counting the wild orangutans of Borneo

John-Rob Pool 9 Oct 2015

Policing domestic wildlife trafficking in Peru

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 30 Sep 2015

Man starts record-breaking walk to protect one of the world’s rarest primates

Greg Norman 2 Sep 2015

Sarawak pledges to protect its last remaining orangutans

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Sep 2015

The Cat Ba Langur: a primate walks the razor’s edge of extinction

John R. Platt 31 Aug 2015

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