Coronavirus and Our Fellow Great Apes: UPDATED 19 FEBRUARY 2021
UPDATE as of 19 February 2021: All Updates at article end (original text published 12 May 2020) Key to our Apes Like Us program is exploring the impact of threats to all great apes; disease is one of the greatest of those threats. In the past two decades multiple...
In the Shadows of a Tragic 2020
Has there been a more chaotic year? Perhaps not since being plunged into world war, notably the first war, with a pandemic in its wake, has a year been felt by more people in more places. Certainly, the Coronavirus pandemic takes top honors on most lists, dominating...
Chimp Thoughts: World Chimpanzee Day & The Day I Thought Jane Was Going To Kill Me
Oh my god, I just hit Frodo in the head with my camera — Jane is going to kill me! It was self-defense… it was self-defense… I kept repeating in my head, trying to make it sound acceptable to the most famous chimpanzee researcher on the planet. I knew I...
World Rainforest Day — Seeing Rainforests For More Than Their Trees
World Rainforest Day June 22, 2020 Venturing into the humid rainforest tropics for the first time can be a shock to your temperate senses. The heat feels like it never goes away. Even at night the heat and humidity can incite a restless riot of tossing in a...
What is an Endangered Species?
What is an Endangered Species and who decides when a species becomes endangered? Seems pretty obvious, until you start to give it some thought. With Endangered Species Day on Friday May 15th, many of you asked us that very What and Who question. Here’s the...
For over 20 years, GLOBIO has been connecting kids and adults to the magic, awe and wonder of our planet. GLOBIO works with education partners, wildlife sanctuaries and conservation projects in Equatorial Africa and Borneo to support their conservation work on-the-ground, and share their stories with the rest of the world. Ever-evolving, we also create engaging educational content to spread awareness to the public about our shared environmental issues.
