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A rainforest conservation project has won a global award. The 8 Primates Project, a citizen science initiative focused on primate conservation in the Peruvian Amazon, won the 2025 Regenerative Travel ...

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Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

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Shirley C. Strum does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Conflict between humans and baboons can tear communities apart. Shirley C. Strum has studied wild olive baboons in Kenya for more than 50 years. In that time she's come to understand the species ...