Great Apes News

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

John Cannon and Didier Makal 30 May 2023

Preserving orangutan culture an ingredient for successful conservation

Linda Lombardi 2 May 2017

Conservation lessons from the bonobos

Kim Harrisberg 1 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

Women could be a key to great ape conservation in the Congo

Tina Deines 21 Apr 2017

No safe forest left: 250 captive orphan chimps stuck in sanctuaries

Eugene N. Nforngwa 20 Apr 2017

Connectivity and coexistence key to orangutan survival on croplands

Linda Lombardi 13 Apr 2017

Great apes in Asian circus-style shows on rise — so is trafficking

Millie Kerr 12 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

Ebo forest great apes threatened by stalled Cameroon national park

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2017

The military family that kept a pet orangutan in Indonesia

Philip Jacobson 29 Mar 2017

Paying for healthcare with trees: win-win for orangutans and communities

Claire Salisbury 28 Mar 2017

“Endangered species to declare?” Europe’s understudied bushmeat trade

Sean Mowbray 20 Mar 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

Scrapping Nigerian superhighway buffer isn’t enough, say conservation groups

John Cannon 22 Feb 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

African bush babies gain a new genus

John Cannon 20 Feb 2017

Loving apes celebrated this Valentine’s Day

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2017

NGO takes action to save great apes in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands

Aminateh Nkemngu 31 Jan 2017

Primates face impending extinction – what’s next?

Russell A. Mittermeier and Anthony B. Rylands 24 Jan 2017

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Giovanni Ortolani 20 Jan 2017

‘Running out of time’: 60 percent of primates sliding toward extinction

John Cannon 19 Jan 2017

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Eugene N. Nforngwa 19 Jan 2017

Pileated gibbons poached as bushmeat to feed illegal rosewood loggers

Demelza Stokes 17 Jan 2017

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Colleen Kimmett 4 Jan 2017

Video: Two rescued pet orangutans return to the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Dec 2016

Home for the holidays: Chimp exits war-torn Iraq, lands in Kenya

Geoffrey Kamadi 12 Dec 2016

Thailand failing to stop illegal trade in apes due to inadequate legislation

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Dec 2016

Conservation in oil palm is possible (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 25 Nov 2016

Don’t feed the orangutans — a warning unheeded at popular ecotourism stop

Aria Danaparamita 21 Nov 2016

Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Company poised to destroy critical orangutan habitat in breach of Indonesia’s moratorium

Erik Meijaard 24 Oct 2016

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