Skip to content
New Reporting Opportunity – Great Apes & Industrial Agriculture
Mongabay is excited to announce our new Great Apes and Industrial Agriculture Mongabay Reporting Network (MRN), which will produce articles […]
Read more →Mongabay.org
Environmental Journalism and Education
Tag: great apes
Investigating the impact of palm oil on wildlife in Cameroon’s Ebo forest
Journalists Michael Casey and Ntungwe Elias published an in-depth look at the threat to Cameroon’s Ebo forest from palm oil […]
Read more →
TAKE PART: Is the Human Cost of Saving Gorillas Too High?
With funding from Mongabay’s Special Reporting Initiatives program, journalist Wendee Nicole reports on the impact of gorilla conservation on the […]
Read more →
Tchimpounga, chimpanzees, and extractive industries in the Republic of Congo
Flying under the radar in Central Africa, Chinese companies may be wreaking environmental havoc. Read the full piece by Special […]
Read more →
What do the climate and orangutans have in common?
They are both threatened by coal – the first by burning it, and the second by mining it. Read the […]
Read more →
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – Orangutans and Oil Palm Plantations
National Geographic recently published an article on the endangered orangutan and how advances in deforestation-free palm oil may help save […]
Read more →
Industry and Apes: A Testing Ground
The Zanaga iron ore mine could be described as a test of best laid plans for preserving wildlife. But are […]
Read more →
Could the current Ebola strain have come from illegally-trafficked great apes?
Special Reporting Assignment fellow Daniel Stiles presents an analysis on the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its possible […]
Read more →
The naïve chimps of the Ndoki Forest
Ndoki Forest, charmed or cursed? Conservationists admit sustainable logging wilting in naïve chimp habitat. Special Reporting Assignment Fellow Daniel Stiles […]
Read more →
Great apes lose out in CITES hearing
With the CITES Standing Committee meeting currently underway, SRA Fellow Daniel Stiles comments on massive illegal trade of endangered Great […]
Read more →
Oil or conservation in Congo’s oldest park?
Special Reporting Assignment Fellow Daniel Stiles files a second report on the SOCO’s suspension of oil exploration in Virunga National […]
Read more →
New Book Argues Extractive Development Doesn’t Have to Endanger Apes
By Special Reporting Assignment Fellow Daniel Stiles There seem to be endless laments about the destruction of tropical forests and […]
Read more →
Virunga, SOCO and Great Apes – which will win out?
What does SOCO’s withdrawal really mean for the future of Virunga National Park? Read SRA Fellow Daniel Stiles analysis on […]
Read more →
Book Review: Extractive Industries & Apes
SRA Fellow Daniel Stiles reviews The Arcus Foundation’s State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation.
Read more →