Shouting about the disgrace of our society. We need to face upto the fact that killing animals is just unacceptable. Do something worthwhile today. Be vegan.
As evidence builds that chimps are displaying behaviour patterns and communication skills similar to that of early humans, it seems we may not have so much longer to study these fascinating beings. Populations are declining at an alarming rate due to deforestation, poaching and hunting for food (as stated in the BBC article below from the 17th October.)
Chimpanzees have always been of huge interest to humans as they are so closely related - and if you are one of those who does not believe this to be true please read a good science book and stop being so childish. Yet this has never stopped us for exploiting these beings and making them endure great suffering, from sticking them in clothes and making them perform for our tv adverts to experimentation: to help stop this suffering from experimentation, please visit ‘People against chimpanzee experimentation’ at:
http://www.pace.org.uk/
The below is taken from an article on the BBC news website (and I only found those by truly perusing all the news sections, it was not in the main articles. Selective news reporting often means stories like this remain unseen by many). Yet another great achievement of the great human race, wiping out species sharing the earth with us. Mind you, considering this great race is also killing the planet they live on, it should not surprise me.
The population of the endangered West African chimpanzees in Ivory Coast has fallen by about 90% in less than 20 years, a study has suggested.
Researchers found 90% fewer nests than a similar audit carried out in 1990, which suggested the chimp population had crashed from 12,000 to about 1,200.
Increased levels of deforestation and poaching and were likely to be main factors for the decline, they added.
Details of the survey’s findings appear in the journal Current Biology.
……
Professor Boesch, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, said poaching and deforestation were on the increase as a result of the nation’s rapidly growing human population.
The number of people living in Ivory Coast is now estimated to be 18m, up from 12m in 1990.
“The forest has been cut back in order to grow cash crops and other things,” he explained.
“Also, chimpanzees, like many other species, are hunted for their meat…
I used to eat meat, wear leather and basically had the same contempt for animals which I see on a daily basis everywhere I look. I became a vegetarian after seeing newborn lambs prancing around and not wanting to be responsible for them being murdered. I became a vegan when I was thinking of breastfeeding my son and finally understood what the dairy industry is all about. What I know now, I did not know then. No longer living in ignorance, I have no option but to write this blog.
Loading ...