Eating Apes
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Author: Dale Peterson
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 333
"Eating Apes" is a 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 expose 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 per cent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by colour photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, "Eating Apes" documents the when, where, how and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. It persuasively 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 one book, Peterson aims to take us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to ou
Author: Dale Peterson
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 333
"Eating Apes" is a 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 expose 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 per cent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by colour photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, "Eating Apes" documents the when, where, how and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. It persuasively 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 one book, Peterson aims to take us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to ou
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Dale Peterson
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 333
"Eating Apes" is a 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 expose 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 per cent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by colour photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, "Eating Apes" documents the when, where, how and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. It persuasively 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 one book, Peterson aims to take us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to ou
Author: Dale Peterson
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 333
"Eating Apes" is a 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 expose 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 per cent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by colour photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, "Eating Apes" documents the when, where, how and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. It persuasively 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 one book, Peterson aims to take us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to ou
Eating Apes
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