Monkeys, apes are being eaten to extinction

[Guest guest]

By Joseph B. Verrengia

ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 24 2000

 

 

THEY WERE stacked, stiff like cordwood, on the beds of logging trucks bound for

distant cities. Sinewy arms and legs were smoking over trailside fires. Their

fresh red meat was piled in open-air market stalls as women listlessly fanned

away the flies — and questions.

 

Rare apes and monkeys are among the world’s most stringently protected and

intensively studied creatures. Yet they are being hunted into oblivion.

 

 

http://www.msnbc.com/news/434164.asp

 

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[Guest guest]

, " anji b " <vegan@g...> wrote:

> By Joseph B. Verrengia

> ASSOCIATED PRESS

> July 24 2000

>

>

> THEY WERE stacked, stiff like cordwood, on the beds of logging

trucks bound for distant cities. Sinewy arms and legs were smoking

over trailside fires. Their fresh red meat was piled in open-air

market stalls as women listlessly fanned away the flies — and

questions.

>

> Rare apes and monkeys are among the world's most stringently

protected and intensively studied creatures. Yet they are being

hunted

into oblivion.

>

>

> http://www.msnbc.com/news/434164.asp

>

 

here is some other info on this subject on the web:

 

the website of The Bushmeat Project:

 

http://www.biosynergy.org/bushmeat/

 

,and, you can sign the online bushmeat petition at the Jane Goodall

Institute website:

 

http://www.janegoodall.org/chimps/bushmeat.htm

 

 

 

--jack

[Guest guest]

Also,

just a few days ago the House of Representatives passed the Great

Ape Conservation Act, which will put federal funds toward helping to

stop the bushmeat trade. Next the companion bill, (S. 1007) advances

to the senate, so this is the time to write your senators and ask

them

to support this bill.

 

more info at HSUS website:

 

http://www.hsus.org/whatnew/ape072700.html

 

 

--jack