Eating Apes

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Describes 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. What was a minor activity is now an enormous and unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the 3 African great apes account for only about 1% of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Peterson brings the facts into a single, accessible book.
'The African Great Apes, our closest living relatives, are in imminent danger of extinction. Eating Apes, in beautiful prose, exposes the enormity and complexity of this conservation crisis. It took great courage to gather and present this information. You must read this book.' Jane Goodall