Lauryn Ishak spent five days hopping across Indonesia’s islands, searching for the country’s endemic wildlife with independent tour guides. Lauryn Ishak

Ofir’s story is one of courage and adventure. After rescuing a baby chimpanzee from poachers in Cameroon, he established a wildlife law enforcement NGO to fight wildlife crime and corruption. Jan Fox spoke to him about his environmental activism, and his extreme adventures across Africa. Jan Fox

Cameroon’s Ebo Forest is the most biologically diverse area in the Gulf of Guinea. But with government plans to create two long-term logging concessions in the forest, its future is uncertain. Wilder Team

Tanzania’s Mahale National Park, on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, is one of the best places in the world to observe chimpazees up close in the wild. Andreas Fox