A Critically Endangered species of monkey has been caught on camera for the first time in Nigeria. With as few as 500 animals ...

By Spoorthy Raman 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.

Niger Delta red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus epieni) are endemic to the marshy woodlands of the Niger Delta, Africa’s largest mangrove forest.When the species was first described in the 1990s ...