Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park was established in 2004 to protect the endangered Zanzibar red colobus. Initially met with conflict and resistance, the conservation project has now been embraced by ...

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 ...

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 ...

The endangered Zanzibar red colobus is a rare primate that lives only in the Zanzibar archipelago. New research from Bangor University primatologists, national park managers from Zanzibar, and the ...

image: A team of WCS 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 ...

Gun hunting may be driving some of the most threatened primates toward extinction on Bioko Island off the coast of Africa, according to a new study by a team led by Drexel University researchers. 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 ...

Endangered primates that are frequently killed by cars while trying to cross the road in a national park in Zanzibar have been given a lifeline after speed bumps were put in to slow down traffic.

This video is a vivid reminder that we need to act now to preserve our planet’s vital habitats and threatened species like Bouvier’s red colobus as well as the extraordinary wildlife diversity that ...

During a routine survey at a nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a wildlife patrol team heard some noises coming from the trees. They started filming and ended up recording the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Tai Forest Monkey Project has operated a research field station in west Africa’s Ivory Coast for 30 years, but on the one day since its opening that the site was unstaffed because ...