Articles Tagged with “monkey”

5 Articles found tagged with “monkey”.

  • Hope for Rare Colobus Monkey

    The first ever range-wide population census of Zanzibar’s endemic red colobus monkey brings good news and bad.

    By Alex Taylor on 19th July 2018
  • Bushmeat Hunting Driving Biodiversity Loss

    A new study has found that hunting for the bushmeat trade has dramatically reduced wildlife biodiversity in the forests near rural villages in Gabon, Central Africa.

    By Alex Taylor on 11th December 2016
  • Don’t Feed the Monkeys

    Barbary macaques once stretched throughout northern Africa and southern Europe, however populations have suffered a major decline in recent years existing only in isolated areas in Morocco and Algeria.

    By Alex Taylor on 9th June 2016
  • Gun Hunting Driving Primates to Extinction

    New research carried out on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea has discovered that, as gun hunting increases, the abundance of the island’s seven monkey species falls

    By Alex Taylor on 27th April 2016
  • Bleak Future for Rare Chimps

    Chimpanzees are under threat from many human activities there are only around 6,000 individuals of the Nigerian-Cameroon chimpanzee subspecies are left in the wild.

    By Alex Taylor on 5th February 2015