Resources

Here you can find our relevant publications, webinars and blogs pertaining to human-primate interfaces, and more. Simply, click to get started.

Publications

Responsible Primate-Watching for Tourists

11 chapters. Recommendations for tourists written by IUCN SSC SHPI.

Responsible Primate-Watching for Primate Tourism Professionals

5 chapters. Recommendations for primate tourism professionals written by IUCN SSC SHPI.

Unregulated Human Provisioning of Primates

Advice for conservation practitioners written by IUCN SSC SHPI.

Why do primates make bad pets?

Poster/infographic available in 7 languages and accompanying information sheet

No Primate Selfies Image

Best Practice Guidelines – Responsible Images of Non-Human Primates

Document available in 24 languages and a one-year later update (2022)

Protect Great Apes from Disease

  • 3 posters
  • 3 videos
  • 1 booklet
  • 1 offline programme
  • 1 website with more information
https://www.iucngreatapes.org/protect-great-apes-from-disease

Webinars

Cercopithecines, People & Covid-19 – June 2020

Decolonising Primate Conservation – August 2020

Urban Human-Primate Coexistence

Belief Systems in African Primate Conservation – October 2020

“Conservation on the Ground” – August 2021

“Community Science for Primate Conservation” – December 2021

Conservation Behaviour Change: How to change Human Behaviour to Help People & Wildlife by Dr Laura Perry December 2024

“Conservation and Human Rights: Negotiating Common Ground” by Dr Helen Newing – March 2025

Blog

‘Neocolonial Narratives of Primate Conservation‘ 25th May 2020 – Michelle A. Rodrigues

‘Long-tailed macaques, the IUCN SSC PSG Section for Human-Primate Interactions, and I‘ 26th February 2020 – Malene Friis Hansen

Reading Lists