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Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon and Didier Makal 30 May 2023

A bonobo

Easygoing bonobos accepting of outsiders, study says

Charles Mpaka 10 Oct 2022

Bua Noi in her enclosure

Thai zoos come under scrutiny again as tourism rebounds from COVID-19

Shannon Brault 10 Oct 2022

As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the data?

Philip Jacobson 3 Oct 2022

Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022

A chimpanzee digs a well as another adult chimpanzee with an infant watches.

Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 28 Jul 2022

A male orangutan in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2022

A chimpanzee in the Congo rainforests

Data from droppings: Researchers draw up a genetic ID map for chimps

Charles Mpaka 1 Jul 2022

A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022

An infant bonobo photographed a few days after being released in the Ekolo ya Bonobo Community Reserve. Image courtesy by Cinita Garai/ Friends of Bonobos.

Bonobos torn from the wild make their return, with a helping hand

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Apr 2022

A Bornean orangutan in Indonesia

How many orangutans does $1 billion save? Depends how you spend it, study finds

Jim Tan 1 Apr 2022

Saving Nigeria’s gorillas was also meant to help communities. It hasn’t (analysis).

Orji Sunday 31 Mar 2022

Photos: Caged orangutan found in Indonesian politician’s home

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 7 Feb 2022

Lockdown underscores Uganda’s overreliance on tourism to fund conservation

Nangayi Guyson 21 Dec 2021

U.K. conglomerate Jardines ‘caught red-handed’ clearing orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2021

For world’s rarest gorillas, camera traps prove pivotal for protection

Gianluca Cerullo 23 Nov 2021

Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2021

Think that GIF of the smoking chimp is funny? The chimp wasn’t laughing

Tina Deines 17 Nov 2021

In rural Nigeria, the magic of cinema builds support for ape conservation

Orji Sunday 15 Nov 2021

On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes

Orji Sunday 25 Oct 2021

COVID could wreak havoc on gorillas, but they social distance better than we do

Ryan Truscott 22 Oct 2021

Gorilla baby boom sparks hope in DRC, but threats to great apes persist

Claude Sengenya 6 Oct 2021

A bridge of trees reunites gibbons separated by a railway line in India

Anuraag Baruah 5 Oct 2021

Causes for celebration, and concern, on World Gorilla Day

Isabel Esterman 24 Sep 2021

Chimpanzee

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

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

For male chimps looking to mate, an entourage is the way to go, study finds

Ed Holt 30 Aug 2021

Warming climate means scientists may have overcounted bonobos, study says

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2021

For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2021

Without room to expand, mountain gorillas’ population growth could backfire

Ini Ekott 29 Jun 2021

New survey nearly doubles Grauer’s gorilla population, but threats remain

Ed Holt 22 Jun 2021

For Africa’s great apes, a post-pandemic future looks beyond tourism

Heather Richardson 9 Jun 2021

Lean times leave orangutans wasting away. Habitat loss makes things worse

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2021

Death toll rises to 10 after landslide at dam site in orangutan habitat

Ayat S. Karokaro 7 May 2021

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