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Recommendations for unregulated human provisioning of primates written by an interdisciplinary group of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate Interactions (SHPI). The SHPI …

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the Mentawai Islands…

COLOMBO — As Sri Lanka grapples with severe agricultural losses caused by wildlife species ranging from primates to peafowl, in March, the government launched a nationwide, five-minute rapid visual ce...

Language shapes the way we view our world. In the field of wildlife conservation, even very subtle word choices drive peoples’ perceptions around individual species or situations. These word choices…

Despite evidence that Indigenous Peoples are better guardians of their Forests than international or state protection agencies, they continue to be forcibly evicted from their Lands. Additionally, des...

Best Practice Guidelines for Responsible Images of Non-Human Primates A document detailing appropriate imagery (photos and videos) to be shared of non-human primates. The document describes in deta…

The primate species identified in the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land have symbolic meanings that are deeply associated with the cultural, ecological and mythological elements of the Paiter-Suruí peo...

There is a rapidly developing literature on the 'human dimensions' of conservation, including critical scholarship and appli...

Recent research explores what drives this human behaviour.

A Mongabay investigation has uncovered exclusive details about the clandestine market for gorilla and chimpanzee body parts in northeastern Nigeria, revealing that the trade works in a larger area…

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The endangered great apes of Malaysia and Indonesia struggle when translocated despite efforts to protect them, finds research

Numerous events and policy decisions across the world in the last several months are causing despair among many environmentalists. The abrupt freeze, and potential termination, of international funds ...

Human-primate overlaps are increasing globally, especially in areas where primate populations are abundant. In the island of Saint Kitts, the population of African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) ...

Dr Newing is the lead author of the recently published Conservation and Human Rights: An Introduction.  This webinar is "for conservation professionals who are interested to learn more about the relat...

The native people of South Africa revered baboons, but they became part of occult beliefs and suburban fears.

Dr Newing is the lead author of the recently published Conservation and Human Rights: An Introduction.  This webinar is "for conservation professionals who are interested to learn more about the relat...

npj Biodiversity - Mapping the patriarchy in conservation

Drones were deliberately flown over the heads of women, forcing them to drop their firewood and flee for cover

Some Reading Suggestions Compiled by the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate Interactions Methods Chua, L. et al. 2022. Using Ethnographic Research for Social engagement: A T…

For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country’s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon. But this harmony stands in fragile ecolog...