monkey

There's been a mixed bag of news about the state of the world's other primates (the population of humans, by all accounts, is increasing) in recent weeks.  Overall, the news is not good. Cambodia shelters "surprisingly large" numbers of two species that are threatened.

The Sumatran Orangutan is critically endangered and the Bornean Orangutan's population is just 14% of 50 years ago. Their habitat is increasingly under threat due to illegal logging, forest fires, mining and most critically convertion of forest to palm oil plantations. Find out what you can do to help save the Orangutan!

After two chimps escaped a British zoo, officials killed “Jonnie” but captured “Coco.” Brings up the old question: to zoo or not to zoo?