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SLAPrim are working hard to ensure Covid safe protocols for our Congress participants and for the local community. Lots more updates coming soon so stay tuned! Dear IPS / SLAPrim members, Greetings from the local organizers of the IPS-SLAPrim Congress! We would like to renew our invitation to the meeting. We are ready to welcome […]

A wonderful new profile of the Ivorian primatologist Prof. Inza Koné discussing what turned him on to Biology, his experiences, and his thoughts on the next big questions https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S0960982221010587…

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 […]

We know it’s pretty tricky to plan ahead right now.. but for anyone interested in hosting the IPS 2025 Congress we’re now open for questions and bids. We’re open to all kinds of innovative and interesting approaches to what conferences of the future might look like. Any questions please get in touch with our Secretary […]

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…