Many people have never heard of a red colobus, yet they are Africa's most imperiled group of monkeys. There are 17 species of red colobus found in tropical forests from Senegal in west Africa to the ...

In 1993, a new species was discovered in the swampy forests of Africa: the Niger Delta red colobus monkey. Within 20 years, ...

Camera traps installed in December 2024 in a community conservation area in the Niger Delta have captured the first videos of elusive and critically endangered red colobus monkeys. The news comes ...

To be clear, while many scientists thought that thanks to logging and hunting the Bouvier’s red colobus monkey was extinct, others were not so sure. They believed that the cute colobus, possibly not ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A wildlife patrol at a nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo filmed the first-ever video of a “very rare” monkey species. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto During a routine survey at a ...

Conservationists and scientists from almost 20 institutions in the United States, Europe, and Africa, have concluded that immediate conservation efforts to protect red colobus monkey species could ...