Ecology and Conservation of Bengal Slow Loris

Not all maps are created equal. 🌿
Our latest research shows that the resolution of imagery used to map landscapes has real consequences for wildlife conservation — particularly in complex agroforestry mosaics like those found across West Java, Indonesia, home of the Critically Endangered Javan slow loris 🐒
High-resolution drone imagery revealed a dramatically different picture of habitat availability than satellite data alone — changing not just how we see the landscape, but how we protect it.
📄 Research in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis and Institut Teknologi Bandung. Full study in Journal of Applied Ecology — https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70290

❤️ Happy World Bonobo Day ❤️

Did you know that bonobos are a member of the taxonomic family that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and us?

They were once considered to be “pygmy chimpanzees” but have long been recognized as a separate species endemic to Africa’s Congo Basin.

They are exemplified by long-term social cohesion, engaging facial expressions, and female centered societies.

Once considered to live in very remote communities, they are now listed as “endangered” by the IUCN, their survival threatened by commercial poaching, habitat loss and infectious disease.

Please help ASP’s efforts to fund primate research and care for them where they live. https://www.xcdsystem.com/asp/store/registration.cfm?ID=0kkRq7P&CartID=9E4B5574-0B5A-06B8-D81950A494508D25

Learn more about bonobos! Samuni & Surbeck (2023). Cooperation across social borders in bonobos. Science, 382(6672), 805-809; and Fasbender et al. (2022). Bonobo social organization at the seasonal forest‐savanna ecotone of the Lomami national park. American Journal of Primatology, 84(12), e23448.

Photo Credit : K. Sabbi and the Kokolopori Bonobo Project

They are busy with slow loris stuff!!

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For two of the world’s most at-risk primates, threats abound and the future looks grim Between Nigeria’s Cross River and Cameroon’s Sanaga River lies one of West Africa’s largest remaining blocks of intact rainforest. Noisy groups of Preuss’s red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus preussi) move through this forest’s canopy in bands 20-to-60-strong, feeding mainly on the young lea...

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MSc or PGDip or PGCert in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University Primate Conservation, MSc, PGDip or PGCert from the School of Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University

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The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.

International Primate Day 2025

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International Primate Day 2025

The South Asian country Bangladesh is home to 10 species of non-human primates. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has categorised four of these primates as Endangered, three Vulnerable, one Near Threatened and one Least Concern on a global scale. Moreover, the Western Hoolock Gibbon and Phayre's langur have been listed among the most threatened primates in the world! It concludes that 70% of the primates in Bangladesh are at risk without our strategic conservation interventions!

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