Barbary Macaque Awareness & Conservation

02/05/2024

What better way to celebrate Macaque Week than with a photo of one of the newest macaques on the planet! Barbary macaques are born in the spring so they have the whole summer to grow and learn with the help of their adoptive dads!

01/05/2024

Some years ago, we decided that macaques needed more love. So International Macaque Week was created! Read how here!

BLOG OF THE DAY: How International Macaque Week came to be

By the very team from Barbary Macaque Awareness & Conservation who started it all!

Read the blog now at https://www.asiaforanimals.com/post/how-international-macaque-week-came-to-be

23/04/2024

We are collecting artwork to be exhibited on the webpage!

"The beauty of macaques - all in one place" online gallery (www.macaquecoalition.com/imw-gallery) showcases not just macaque diversity, personalities, and complexities, but also the human element - the artists, the photographers, the researchers who represent their countries and organizations.

Submit your work now by email: [email protected] or DM us to arrange for your work to be featured! Use art to tell the world that we should see and respect macaques the same way you do.

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22/04/2024

Work with us and the macaques! We are looking for an Operations and Research Manager. More info here.

14/04/2024

International Macaque Week 2024 - 🔜 Coming Soon!

Embrace the Spirit of Macaque Positivity! International Macaque Week is celebrated in the first week of May, with this year's theme focusing on Macaque Positivity: Celebrating Macaque Lives. 🎉

Are you an organization, individual or do you just simply love macaques? Follow and International Macaque Week's social media accounts and website for exciting updates.

Stay tuned for exciting macaque-related resources, facts, news, podcasts, blogs, and much more! www.macaquecoalition.com/international-macaque-week

If you are part of an organization and want to get involved, email us at [email protected]

07/04/2024

International macaque Week - 1st week of May!!!

International Macaque Week is the first week of May every year! We encourage everyone to celebrate the wonderful talented innovative clever macaques 🐒

05/04/2024

We're very happy to inform you that the first babies have been seen by the BMAC team! Here's hoping for many more!

06/03/2024

Recommandations pour une observation responsable des singes d'Afrique et d'Eurasie https://humanprimateinteractions.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/recommandations-pour-une-observation-responsable-des-singes-d-afrique-et-d-eurasie.pdf

04/03/2024

BMAC advisor, Sian Waters, contributed to this important paper on the importance of field stations for biodiversity conservation. In the map of Figure 3, the BMAC conservation centre is the only one reported for the whole of North Africa. Read the article here

Conservation Letters, publishes empirical & theoretical research on the conservation of biological diversity.

26/01/2024

As winter progresses, we have decided, on the basis of the macaques' body condition, that we will again provision some macaque groups with acorns. We are very grateful to Gaia Nature Fund, The Netherlands, for their support enabling us to buy acorns. The forest is recovering so we only need to feed three groups for a shorter period this winter. Here are Ahmed, Mohamed and Hussain putting up the acorn containers and fitting camera traps so we can monitor the macaques' acorn consumption.

02/01/2024

Happy New Year from the BMAC team! We are delighted to begin the year with the news that Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo has been working hard to raise money for us with primate cup cakes, primate bingo and monkey ears for the keepers! Huge thanks to everyone who worked very hard to raise some money for Barbary macaque conservation. If your zoo is raising money for us then send us news on your fundraising activities so we can share them here!

08/12/2023

Winter has come to Bouhachem but the team are still busy monitoring macaques and collecting acorns to plant more oak trees. It's also mushroom season so the macaques have plenty of a food they really enjoy.

10/11/2023

Here's another video from Sian and Lucy's recent trip to Morocco. here Lucy talks about the difficulties of photographing camera shy macaques!

23/10/2023

BMAC volunteers, Lucy and Sian have just got back from Morocco where they worked with the field team doing some surveying. They made some videos to give you some idea of what the BMAc team do when in the forest. Here is one of Sian explaining how we count Barbary macaque groups when we get the opportunity. Warning - you don't see much activity but that's Barbary macaque fieldwork in Bouhachem!

15/08/2023

08/06/2023

A few weeks ago, Dream Village Zoo in Mohamedia invted the BMASc tema to particpate in a "Barbary Macaque Day". Staff from Dream Village produced these great Barbary macaque outlines. Zoo visitors were invited to learn more about the macaques and to sign their names pledging never to keep a pet macaque. We reached around 1,000 people! We are very grateful to Dream Village for their support of Barbary macaque conservation, and to Zoo Vienna for supporting our education officer, Ahmed Chetuan. Ahmed can be seen here telling kids all about macaques.

25/05/2023

Our UK NGO's annual report has just been published on our website. You can read it here.https://barbarymacaqueconservation.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/bmac-annual-report-2022.pdf

18/04/2023

Did we mention that 2023 is the Year of the Barbary Macaque at GAIAZoo Netherlands!! All funds raised help us help the macaques so if you live close by, make sure you visit. If you don't live nearby why not adopt a GAIAZoo macaque to help a wild one? https://www.gaiazoo.nl/gaia-nature-fund/jaar-van-de-berberaap-2023

Alle diersoorten die het Gaia Nature Fund steunt worden in de natuur bedreigd. Maar sommige soorten hebben wat extra aandacht nodig. Deze soorten zetten we tijdens ‘het jaar van…’ volledig in de spotlight. We organiseren speciale activiteiten om extra geld in te zamelen en aandacht te generere...

10/02/2023

The BMAC team were invited to raise awareness about Barbary macaques at a football tournament a couple of weeks ago. The team used our portable education exhibition to tell the participants and audience about Barbary macaques and the threats that face them in the Rif Mountains and elsewhere in Morocco. The competing teams wore BMAC shirts to show their support for us and the macaques! Many thanks to all those involved.

20/01/2023

In this new book, BMAC people also headed up a chapter on the impacts of dogs on primates. Dogs kill Barbary macaques in Bouhachem and we think it is an important, but overlooked cause of disturbance and, sometimes, mortality in primates.