Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to write with some news about two upcoming events jointly sponsored by the International Primatological Society and Latin American Society of Primatology (IPS & SLAPrim). First, is our August online program, which will consist of four sessions (three symposia and one roundtable). You will soon hear more about the […]

The IPS received outstanding applications this year, and we are delighted to have been able to grant two fantastics applicants funds to pursue their proposed study/training programme. Ms. Eka Cahyaningrum from Indonesia: $1,500 to supplement missing tuition fee funds to pursue the YALE Tropical Forest Landscape Online Certification. Eka has been working in the past 4 […]

The new edition of the ASP-CAN newsletter is out, focusing on Owl Monkey conservation. Links in English… and in Spanish… 

Do you have data on wildlife crossing structures in Latin America and would you like to contribute to a paper on this topic? Find out more here.. Invitatción a un data-paper sobre el uso de pasos de fauna : más información…

Written by Maddie Carlson and Bert Covert, on the topic of how nonhuman primates are portrayed in photos and films impacts their protection and conservstion status. Now available online…

Researchers at the University of Exeter and colleagues are running a survey in order to develop freely available multimedia education tools to reduce risk of transmission to African great apes. Please find the survey here in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Mandarin.. https://exeter.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/reducing-transmission-of-covid-19-to-african-great-apes-in-2

The Many Primates project are looking for social/ecological level primate species data to complete their modelling challenge – more information on how to help out/participate here…

The Brazilian Primatological Society is aware that Brazilian environment agencies are working to legalise the pet trade of 8 species of native primate. They are campaigning that they and other specialists be allowed to participate in this process. Their current campaign ‘I am not a pet’ (#eunaosoupet) can be found across social media platforms, and […]

The American Society of Primatologists and the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Eco Club will present the award winning documentary, “Cries of Our Ancestors’, followed by a panel discussion with conservation and human rights experts from Global Wildlife Conservation on February 12th – click here to add your email to the participant list for further information.

Royal Society Publishing has put out a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B entitles : Existence and prevalence of economic behaviours among non-human primates, compiled and edited by Elsa Addessi, Thomas Boraud, and Sacha Bourgeouis-Gironde. The articles can be access directly here….