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Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park

Aimable Twahirwa, Latoya Abulu 16 Dec 2024
A southern patas monkey (Erythrocebus baumstarki) sits on the branch of a tree in the Serengeti. Image courtesy Katie Sanborn.

Gum-eating Tanzanian monkey is AWOL, fueling extinction fears

Ryan Truscott 9 Dec 2024
A team from Action for Sustainable Development Investigating the causes of deforestation alerts in Mengame Gorilla Sanctuary in southern Cameroon. Image courtesy of Genevieve Ndjiki.

Monitoring group cracks down on deforestation in Cameroon gorilla sanctuary

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Nov 2024

Illegal gold mining drives deforestation in DRC reserve home to ‘African unicorn’

Ruth Kamnitzer 26 Nov 2024

Logging persists in Cameroon’s wildlife-rich Ebo Forest despite warnings

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 25 Nov 2024
Oluwa's forest are home to many species threatened with extinction, including this red-capped mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus). Image by Rufus46 via Wikimedia Commons (CC SA 3.0).

A Nigerian reserve, once a stronghold for chimps, is steadily losing its forest to farming

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Nov 2024
Northern white-cheeked crested gibbon

Gibbons found to perform dance routines akin to ‘the robot,’ but why?

Carolyn Cowan 11 Nov 2024
Bonobo with a thumb on his mouth

Study finds bonobos more diverse, and more vulnerable, than previously thought

Charles Mpaka 4 Nov 2024
Image by Aram Kazandjian via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Conservationists mobilize to save Sierra Leone national park and its chimpanzees

Mohamed Fofanah 4 Nov 2024

Canopy bridges serve a lifeline for Sumatra’s tree-dwelling primates

Basten Gokkon 31 Oct 2024
The genetically confirmed hybrid (right) with its capped langur mother at Satchari National Park.

Langurs in Bangladesh face extinction as hybridization between species escalates

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 25 Oct 2024
Loxodonta africana cyclotis. Forest elephant bull Gamba, Gabon. Image by WWF / Hervé MORAND with courtesy.

WWF report offers glimmer of conservation hope — yet warns of a planet in peril

Anne Nzouankeu, David Akana 10 Oct 2024
Rinnie and Gary Shapiro in a peat swamp in Central Kalimantan. Photo credit: Rod Brindamour.

Orangutan conservation and communication: Gary Shapiro’s half-century journey from zoos to the wilds of Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Oct 2024
Two young gorillas play in Gabon. Experts say humans' and gorillas' shared used of medicinal plants highlights the interconnectedness between humans and other apes. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indigenous knowledge proves key in a study of plants gorillas use to self-medicate

Charles Mpaka 3 Oct 2024

Wildlife-rich mangroves suffer as Indonesia ramps up construction of new capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2024

From selfies to treetops: Thai NGOs rescue and release captive gibbons

Ana Norman Bermúdez 9 Aug 2024
The Kaapori capuchin, (Cebus kaapori), one of the world’s most critically endangered primates. Image by Ricardo Ferreira Esteves via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, land invasions — and fires — threaten a protected reserve

Ana Ionova 5 Aug 2024

Chatterbox chimps converse just like humans (but with more gestures)

Spoorthy Raman 29 Jul 2024

DRC’s golden-bellied mangabeys: A little-known but much-threatened monkey

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2024

How these howler monkeys recovered from near extinction

25 Jul 2024

Bangladesh wildlife sanctuary continues to lose primary forest

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2024

A Guatemalan reserve turns from civil war refuge to deforestation hotspot

Bobby Bascomb 22 Jul 2024
An endangered Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei).

‘A harmonious human-primate society’: Interview with Whitley winner Kuenzang Dorji

Choki Wangmo 17 Jul 2024

Africa’s great ape sanctuaries are feeling the heat from climate change

Tina Deines 5 Jul 2024
Common brown lemur

Madagascar lemurs, tortoises seized in Thai bust reveal reach of wildlife trafficking

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2024

Camera-trap study brings the lesula, Congo’s cryptic monkey, into focus

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Jun 2024

How agroecological cacao can save an endangered lion tamarin in southern Bahia

Elizabeth Oliveira 21 Jun 2024

Sick chimps seek out medicinal plants to heal themselves, study finds

Charles Mpaka 20 Jun 2024

Indigenous people in the Amazon are helping to build bridges & save primates

Suzana Camargo 19 Jun 2024
A chacma baboon in Zambia.

Collar cameras shed light on quirky baboon diet

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 May 2024
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Setback for Guinea mine that threatens World Heritage chimp reserve

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2024

Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2024

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