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1. Making a difference during the COVID-19 crisis

   Liverpool John Moores University is focusing on our values of community and togetherness as we make our way through the COVID-19 crisis.

2. Paramedic students spring to action to help casualty

   Two third year paramedic students sprang to action last week to help a casualty who had fallen on Rodney Street, Liverpool.

3. Discovery of a new great ape: The Tapanuli orangutan

   An international team of researchers have just described a new ape species, the Tapanuli orangutan, find out more about this exciting discovery here.

4. More Sumatran orangutans found in the wild than expected

   Researchers have discovered c.14,600 animals still live in the wild today - 8,000 more than expected.

5. New light on the evolution of human speech

   Study involving Liverpool John Moores University and the Pongo Foundation has uncovered new calls from orang-utans.

6. World’s rarest great ape virtually wiped out in a century

   The survival of the worlds rarest great ape the Tapanuli Orangutan is hanging in the balance, according to a team of scientists.

7. LJMU praised for 'making the city a better place'

   Managers at a Merseyside care charity have praised LJMU for making the city a better place and sharing its own community values.

8. Staff event at Student Life Building

   Our next staff open day at the Student Life Building takes place on Wednesday 24 November, with networking opportunities, a chance to find out more about the building and its services, plus a free lunch.

9. Great Apes ‘outnumbered 200 to 1’ by 2050 in own feeding grounds

   Research review in Frontiers in Conservation Science predicts habitats increasingly overrun by farmers

10. Great apes predicted to lose 90% of African homelands, study finds

    A triple-whammy of climate change, land-use change and human population growth is set to decimate the habitats of Africas great apes gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos over the coming 30 years.