Great Apes News

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

John Cannon, Didier Makal 30 May 2023

Republic of Congo names new national park, home to gorillas, elephants

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2018

Researchers say orangutans are declining, despite Indonesian government’s claims

Mike Gaworecki 7 Nov 2018

Citizen Ape: The fight for personhood for humans’ closest relatives

Giovanni Ortolani 24 Oct 2018

Can social media save great apes?

Tina Deines 16 Oct 2018

It’s déjà vu for orangutans, devastated by climate change and hunting once before

Linda Lombardi 11 Oct 2018

Deforestation surges in Virunga National Park in the wake of violence

Benji Jones 5 Oct 2018

Dam project pushes threatened orangutans from forest to farms

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2018

Ape sanctuaries in the DRC brace themselves as Ebola hits the country

Tina Deines 2 Oct 2018

World Gorilla Day: good news and grave threats

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2018

Fight to protect the world’s most threatened great ape goes to court

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

Scientists urge Indonesian president to nix dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jul 2018

Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together

Elham Shirin 27 Jun 2018

Orangutan forest school in Indonesia takes on its first eight students

Jim Tan 21 Jun 2018

Puan, the world’s oldest Sumatran orangutan, dies at 62

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jun 2018

More gorillas and chimpanzees living in Central Africa’s forests than thought

John Cannon 27 Apr 2018

What is happening to the orangutans of Borneo?

Basten Gokkon 15 Feb 2018

East Africa’s Albertine Rift needs protection now, scientists say

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2018

Camera trap captures spotted hyena in Gabon national park, the first in 20 years

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2018

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

John Cannon 11 Dec 2017

Forced out or killed: rare chimps go missing from Cameroon mountain forest

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Dec 2017

A new species of orangutan from Indonesia (analysis)

Anthony B. Rylands, Gabriella Fredriksson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Serge Wich 2 Nov 2017

As Grauer’s gorillas cling to survival, new population found

Sharon Guynup 26 Oct 2017

Leading US plywood firm linked to alleged destruction, rights violations in Malaysia

John Cannon 19 Oct 2017

Liberian park protects Critically Endangered western chimpanzees

John Cannon 22 Sep 2017

First orangutan birth in Aceh reserve ‘gives hope’ for survival of species

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2017

80% of Bornean orangutans live outside protected areas

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Sep 2017

Western Chimpanzee numbers declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter century

Mike Gaworecki 31 Jul 2017

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

John Cannon 24 Jul 2017

On the front lines of conservation: How do rural women feel?

Neha Jain 21 Jul 2017

African great ape bushmeat crisis intensifies; few solutions in sight

Sharon Guynup 7 Jul 2017

Scientists mull risks of freeing rare albino orangutan in Borneo

Indra Nugraha 5 May 2017

Going viral: How advancements in Ebola disease detection in wild apes can help to prevent dangerous outbreaks

Lalini Pedris 4 May 2017

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