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The Western Primate League started the way most good things do — a small group of people in Seattle who cared too much to stay quiet.
We are now the IMAA, and we are just getting started. Growing fast, building something the primate world has genuinely never had before.
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The Kipunji, a monkey the mountains kept secret. Forest microphones find troops no one had seen. Plus Dr. Linnea Brandvold on the art of doing nothing — and what two decades of howler research taught her.
38 issues in, and the canopy has never had more friends.
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The Western Primate League started the way most good things do — a small group of people in Seattle who cared too much to stay quiet. We were researchers, writers, and conservationists frustrated by a simple truth: the primates most in need of attention were the ones nobody was talking about.
For years we operated locally, building our network one conversation at a time from the Pacific Northwest. But the problems we were documenting didn't stop at a regional border — and neither did our ambition.
We are now the International Monkeys and Apes Association, and we are just getting started. Seattle is still home base. But our reach is growing fast, and we are building something the primate world has genuinely never had before: a serious, globally-minded organization that makes people actually care.
Supporting field research on understudied primates across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. →
Translating science into stories. Read our newsletter to see this in action. →
Pushing for habitat protections and funding reform. Get in touch to support our work. →
The word preservatory is not a common one. You won't find it in wide use, which is exactly why we chose it. A conservatory preserves music. An observatory preserves light. A preservatory, as we define it, preserves knowledge — of a species, of a habitat, of everything we stand to lose if we stop paying attention.
The IMAA Preservatory is not a zoo, a rescue center, or a sanctuary. No monkeys live here. What lives here is information: field research, population data, behavioral records, and the stories of individual animals collected by scientists working in forests around the world.
We think of ourselves as a library that hasn't finished being written. Every newsletter issue, every research partnership, every dollar that reaches a field team adds another entry. The goal is a record thorough enough to survive the worst — and useful enough to prevent it.
A monkey preservatory is, in the end, a bet that the more people understand these animals, the harder it becomes to look away while they disappear. We are taking that bet seriously.
Includes the Hainan gibbon — possibly the world's rarest primate, with fewer than 30 individuals left on a single island.
Chimpanzees, bonobos, and both orangutan species — each facing ongoing habitat destruction and poaching.
The Gelada, mandrills, and dozens of lesser-known species — at risk but still saveable.
"The Miss Waldron's red colobus was declared extinct in 2000 — the first primate lost in the modern era. Researchers quietly worry it won't be the last."
Research updates, field dispatches, and primate news from our team and beyond.
The biweekly newsletter from IMAA. Science, conservation, and field notes — delivered every Monday at 6:00 AM PDT to Member subscribers.
The Gelada, West Africa's forgotten primates, and Dr. Rousseau on fifteen years watching baboons.
Read Issue 38 →Next up: the crested black macaques of Sulawesi, plus the first progress report on the Atlantic Forest corridor project. Drops Monday at 6:00 AM ET.
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Back-issues will be made available to Member subscribers in a future update. Stay tuned.
We work out of Seattle — one of the world's great cities for science, technology, and the outdoors. Our office sits high above the city with views of the Olympics, the Cascades, and Puget Sound. It is the kind of place that reminds you why the work matters.
We are a small team of researchers, writers, and conservationists. We hire people who care deeply about primates and about doing careful, honest work.
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