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How do you inspire people living in cities to engage with efforts to protect the natural world and the nonhuman animals who call it home? This question propelled the creation of Wildeverse, an immersive mobile game launched in April by conservation-focused technology company Internet of Elephants. Using data and stories from conservationists at Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) and Goualougo Triangle Ape Project, Wildeverse transforms users’ environments into virtual jungles, tasking them with tracking and protecting real apes who live in Indonesian Borneo and Republic of the Congo.

This Sunday, May 17, is IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, which is dedicated to raising awareness about the violence, discrimination, and repression experienced by LGBTQ communities around the world. Arcus’ International Social Justice Program Director Adrian Coman—a movement leader and human rights advocate for over 20 years—talked with us about IDAHOBIT’s origins, how phobia is at the source of many forms of discrimination, and how talking about fear’s influence on our behavior can create space for greater understanding and acceptance.

The coronavirus pandemic is like nothing we have lived through before. As the global community faces this challenge together, we are ever aware that people are experiencing it differently across geographies, occupations, and identities.

The novel coronavirus has already profoundly affected human life. While we do not yet know whether nonhuman apes are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans), there is cause for concern.

Many of the bonobo images most people have seen depict rescued and rehabilitated individuals, who differ from those living in their natural habitats in key ways, including tendency to overgroom and familiarity with the presence of humans. Award-winning photographer and videographer JABRUSON believes documenting the dwindling, fragmented populations left in the wild is critical.

Getting a downlisting from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species does not necessarily mean extinction has stopped knocking on a species’ door. Indeed, in the case of mountain gorillas, who were promoted from critically endangered to endangered at the end of 2018, the possibility still looms.