While a growing body of research highlights the impacts of climate change on wild apes, sanctuaries caring for apes are also feeling the impacts of a warming world. Sanctuaries across Africa are ...

A new scientific census confirms 426 chimpanzees thriving in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, strengthening conservation efforts in one of Africa’s most important great ape habitats.

Current Dragonfly students Maegan Leavendusky (at right) of Mayetta, Kansas, and Rachel Medley of Lexington, Kentucky, recently traveled to Cameroon, West Africa, where they worked on The Great Ape ...

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these disruptions by adapting ...

The 2025 Bwindi Chimpanzee Census has confirmed the presence of an estimated 426 chimpanzees widely distributed across Bwindi ...

Global Field Program (GFP) graduate Maegan Leavendusky '24 of Mayetta, Kansas, traveled to Cameroon, West Africa, where she worked on The Great Ape Conservation Film Project (GACFP), a partnership ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Since 2016, the ABQ BioPark has been using the month of April as a celebration of great apes. Known as “Great Ape-ril” the event has raised over $45,000 for great ape ...

Africa’s great apes—from gorillas to chimpanzees and bonobos—are under far greater threat than scientists previously realized, a new study suggests. While primatologists and conservationists have long ...

Africa’s great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos – are facing many threats: destruction of forest habitats for agriculture, mining and commercial logging; illegal trade; disease; and conflict ...

Journalists based in African countries where great apes live can apply for grants. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering grants for the production of in-depth stories on threats faced ...

Africa’s great apes are faced with a deadly combination of threats: destruction and degradation of their habitats, commercial hunting for bushmeat and live animal trade, and disease — all largely ...