Authors: Heinicke, Stefanie; Ferreira, Julie;Carvalho, Joana S.;Lange, Stefan;Ordaz‐Németh, Isabel;Mengel, Matthias;

Despite increasing awareness of climate change impacts on ecosystems, climate change is still often not considered in conservation planning. To support evidence-based conservation decision-making at site level (that is, the spatial scale at which conservation interventions are typically implemented), we created the A.P.E.S. Wiki (wiki.iucnapesportal.org). This open‐access platform provides site-level information on ape conservation status, threats, and conservation activities based on information compiled from papers, reports and experts. Here, we compared information from 59 sites across West Africa to better understand the extent to which climate change has already been taken into account. For only three sites, we found that climate change is listed as a threat, such as the occurrence of droughts and extreme temperatures. Conservation measures to mitigate the impact of climate change have only been implemented at one site. Additionally, we extracted climate and climate impact data from the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP, www.isimip.org), which provides data products modelled consistently across impact sectors, time and space, to address the lack of data at site level. We then mapped the exposure of each site to climate impacts and climate extremes, and provide the results in the A.P.E.S. Wiki to make information accessible to conservation decision-makers.