Mongabay

First Niger Delta red colobus monkey videos reflect community conservation success

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 ...
Forbes

How Can Saving This Fluffy Monkey Help Africa’s Forests?

Researchers in Cameroon are aiming to use the red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus spp.) as both a standard-bearer for conservation and a barometer of forest health. Red colobus are tree-dwelling monkeys ...
The Conversation

Red colobus are Africa’s most endangered monkeys – protecting them will also safeguard forests

Many people have never heard of a red colobus, yet they are Africa’s most imperilled group of monkeys. There are 17 species of red colobus found in tropical forests from Senegal in west Africa to the ...
Mongabay

For two of the world’s most at-risk primates, threats abound and the future looks grim

Preuss’s red colobus is found in two populations in West Africa — roughly 3,000 individuals in the Korup–Cross River forest block and none confirmed in the Yabassi Key Biodiversity Area for more than ...