In a lab meeting today, a student asked everyone how/when they decided to pursue a research career. I told them how I wrote a letter to a Swiss zoologist when I was 13 asking him how to become a wild chimp researcher. He replied to my letter. I found his reply in a box today. 1/2

Interested in using your social media addiction to promote conservation? We're looking for you! The Western Chimpanzee Action Plan Community community is seeking a social media volunteer to help coordinate our social media pages. Details available here: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Happy #WorldPangolinDay! A #pangolin can fight off a lion by rolling up in a ball so that even the king of the jungle can do no harm to them. But they can not escape human attack. Speak up for #pangolins today! Let them live, let them be! #PangolinDay

Please feel free to apply in English! This job requires both English and French. Come and join the Tai Chimpanzee Project.

If you shop on #amazon please do this via smile.amazon and support our #OzougaChimpanzeeProject by choosing our NGO Ozouga e.V. . Thanks!

Although Africa has contributed relatively little to the planet's #greenhousegas emissions, the continent has suffered some of the world's heaviest impacts of #climatechange, from #famine to flooding. ctvnews.ca/climate-and-en…

A champion for wildlife, Gladys K Zikusoka shares her vision for how gender equity can help us battle climate change and protect wildlife. unwomen.org/en/news-storie… #WomensHistoryMonth #wildlifeconservation

Our new OA paper is now out! We tested a novel intervention aimed at protecting wild chimpanzees against poaching. A successful two-year experiment together with BCFS! doi.org/10.1111/btp.13…

Awesome National Geographic article covering how a warming climate is threatening the critically endangered #ForestElephant. nationalgeographic.com/magazine/artic…

Filmed this morning by Jean Louis Kakoua Atsima, the DTA at Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, this elephant is feeding on aquatic plants in the Ivindo River above Koungou Falls - in the Ivindo World Héritage Site.

Follow us #Ozouga for more updates on #Nesta and please consider donating or sharing our fundraiser with your network. We will keep you up to date! (gofund.me/ef6f22fb) #chimpanzee #emergencyaid

One week to go: don't miss your chance to become the next PhD student working with the Taï Chimpanzee Project ... Apply now at the link below:

In case anyone needs to see a The Nobel Prize winner get tossed into a pond :) Congratulations, Svante!

We are looking to recruit new team members (PhD and post-doc level) to study tool use in living primates and our ancestors. Get in touch!

Pls RT. We’ve co-drafted a letter with the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic to the NIH to ask them to urgently review protocols & ethical justifications for the ongoing invasive macaque research at Harvard 1/2 Link to Google Form: forms.gle/W5wCwEQepfhNnd…

Congratulations to Christophe Boesch and the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (wildchimps.org) on the nomination as Conservation Hero for the Indianapolis Prize 2023 indianapoliszoo.com/prize/conserva…

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📢JOB ALERT - applications possible until positions filled! We are seeking a Project Vet and Research Assistants Taï Chimpanzee Project in the beautiful Tai NP with all its wildlife, especially the wild chimpanzees. Project VET: taichimpproject.org/_files/ugd/c4b… RAs: taichimpproject.org/_files/ugd/c4b

Two months ago, Christophe Boesch, founder of the Taï Chimpanzee Project and the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, unexpectedly passed. In this obituary we share our grief and our thoughts: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

PhD Studentship available I am looking for a student to study the 'Quality and function of affiliative actions in non-human primates' - if you are interested in primate sociality, communication, and relationships, get in touch! findaphd.com/phds/project/q…