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Eating apes
Eating Apesis an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes-chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by compelling color photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann,Eating Apesdocuments the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster.Eating Apespersuasively argues that the American conservation media have failed to report the ongoing collapse of the ape population. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.
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Eating apes / Dale Peterson ; with an afterword and photographs by Karl Ammann ; foreword by Janet K. Museveni
Details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.--From publisher description.
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Afterword
A few years ago, I was invited to visit the home of a Swiss compatriot, an elderly lady by the name of Martha (“Poppi”) Thomas living the life of the privileged in upstate New York. I knew that she was a trustee and a serious financial supporter of the Bronx Zoo and the Wildlife Conservation Society, and after lunch I showed her a copy of theSlaughter of the Apesbrochure that included some of my photos and a little explanatory text.
Her reaction was more than shock. Her conservation world had just crumbled. Since she felt very strongly about
Book Chapter
Bad Medicine
[...]we had seen tiger bone cake pieces and tiger claws and teeth in a special sales display case in the lobby of the Vietnamese hotel where we had been staying in Dien Bien Phu, and the hotel menu was full of \"forest food\" items such as pangolin, porcupine, and turtle.) It also became clear that irrespective of the particular products they sold - whether tiger, ivory, or rhino horn - the traders we met were all potential sources of information on all of these items. [...]most were more reserved in their claims. Since this was just at the start of the national lunar new year (Tet) festivities, one dealer invited us to his family quarters above his shop for a glass of rice wine and then freely showed us tiger bone cake, claws, a rhino horn, elephant skin, and other items.
Magazine Article
Italo-Egyptian Relations 1922-1937
Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Middle East Area Program, A.U.B.
Dissertation
The Great Ape Massacre
Dieu-Donne Bima Bima is nice a young man with a gentle manner. With becoming modesty, he describes how the chopped-up bodies of three gorillas have come to be smoking over a fire outside his hut.
Newspaper Article
