Primates

Despite 35 years of awareness campaigns, palm oil plantations still devastate the landscape of this biodiversity hotspot and the animals who depend on native forests.

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

Science says many types of animals can serve as “umbrella species.” But donors and the public pay the most attention to tigers, orangutans and other charismatic megafauna.

To understand the problem, look to three monkey species, each of whom face the threat in different (and not always successful) ways.

This miniature monkey from Brazil faces a losing battle with disease, invasive species and an ever-shrinking habitat.

Videos of people getting too close to, and touching, the rare apes motivates other people to want to do the same — and that could spread diseases like COVID-19 to a critically endangered species.

The IUCN just declared an African monkey known as Miss Waldron’s red colobus “possibly extinct.” Other species could be quick to follow, conservationists warn.

Images of chimpanzees and other species appear cute, but they may actually depict animals in dangerous situations. Here’s how to tell what’s safe to share — and how that helps conservation.

This month brings two new books about the psychology of climate change and a two-volume series on resistance, plus at look at the secrets that blind us from taking action.

Is it worth flying halfway around the world to see an endangered species if the greenhouse emissions from flying put that species further at risk?