Great Apes News

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

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

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

Can social media save great apes?

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

Deforestation surges in Virunga National Park in the wake of violence

Dam project pushes threatened orangutans from forest to farms

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

World Gorilla Day: good news and grave threats

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

Scientists urge Indonesian president to nix dam in orangutan habitat

Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together

Orangutan forest school in Indonesia takes on its first eight students

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

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

What is happening to the orangutans of Borneo?

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

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

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

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

A new species of orangutan from Indonesia (analysis)

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

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

Liberian park protects Critically Endangered western chimpanzees

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

80% of Bornean orangutans live outside protected areas

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

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

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

African great ape bushmeat crisis intensifies; few solutions in sight

Scientists mull risks of freeing rare albino orangutan in Borneo

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

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