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 ...

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 ...

Forest fragmentation threatens biodiversity, often causing declines or local extinctions in a majority of species while enhancing the prospects of a few. A new study from the University of Illinois ...

Red colobus monkeys are back in action. Foreign oil pollution nearly made these primates, indigenous to the marshy Niger Delta region, go extinct. Oil spills were frequent, pushing former fishing ...

Joshua M. Linder is affiliated with the US-based 501(c)(3) conservation non-profit The Forest Collective (I am a Director, President, and Co-founder) Nelson Ting receives funding from the National ...

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 ...

Across Africa, red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus spp.) are threatened by hunting and loss of forest habitat. The presence of red colobus monkeys, whose range overlaps with that of three-quarters of ...

A team of scientists recently completed the first-ever range-wide population census of the Zanzibar red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus kirkii) an endangered primate found only on the Zanzibar ...