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Endangered chimps ‘on the brink’ as Nigerian reserve is razed for agriculture, timber

Orji Sunday 31 Dec 2021

‘Unprecedented’ fires in Madagascar national park threaten livelihoods and lemurs

Edward Carver 23 Dec 2021
The spectral tarsier is a close relative of the western tarsier. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Extinction not only threatens primates—their parasites are in danger, too

McKenzie Prillaman 1 Dec 2021

Outgunned by militants, rangers fear for chimpanzees in southwest Mali

Lucrèce Aminata Kanté 5 Nov 2021

World Lemur Day celebrated in Madagascar with new postage stamps

Erik Hoffner 29 Oct 2021
A chainsaw cuts through timber near Afi River Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday.

Deforestation soars in Nigeria’s gorilla habitat: ‘We are running out of time’

Orji Sunday 29 Oct 2021

In Bali, prominent official faces backlash over illegal pet gibbon

Luh De Suriyani 7 Oct 2021

Southern patas monkeys face extinction in a decade without intervention

Ed Holt 6 Oct 2021
Baby western lowland gorilla, Cameroon. Image by Alan Duncan Hamilton via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park

Mongabay 5 Oct 2021

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

Suzana Camargo 21 Sep 2021
gorilla

Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2021
Chimpanzee

Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021
A buffy-headed marmoset

Meet the kitten-sized, clown-faced monkey that’s leaping toward extinction

Jeremy Hance 10 Aug 2021

For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Aug 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett A. Butler 8 Jul 2021
Clouded leopard. Image by Ltshears via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Carving up the Cardamoms: Conservationists fear massive land grab in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn & Andrew Ball & Phoung Vantha 1 Jul 2021

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
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

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

Romi Castagnino 19 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

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

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

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

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