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 ...

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 ...

There are lots of mysterious animal species on planet Earth; some are widespread and easy to find, while others hide away in tiny pockets of habitat rarely seen by humans. One such species, the Foa’s ...

Researchers in Cameroon are aiming to use the red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus spp.) as both a standard-bearer for conservation and a barometer of forest health. Red colobus are tree-dwelling monkeys ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 17 species of red colobus monkey living across Africa, including in the Tai Project field station region, have been singled out by scientists as a priority conservation target. Protection of these ...

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 ...

Orange-lipped monkey: Scientists have identified a new species of monkey with striking orange lips in the rainforests of the ...