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Save Chimpanzees from the Bushmeat Trade!
Target: CongressSponsored by: The Jane Goodall Institute
Chimpanzees are our closest human relatives – they have family bonds, make and use tools and show signs of language – and yet, humans are wiping them out.
Tell Congress to discourage illegal bushmeat trafficking and other destructive activities - like irresponsible logging and mining practices - that contribute to it!
Wild chimpanzee populations have plummeted in the last 20 to 30 years, and face more threats ahead. The bushmeat trade (the unsustainable hunting of wildlife) is a root issue endangering chimpanzees. To make this practice even worse, orphaned chimpanzee babies are typically sold in local markets and often end up in the pet trade after watching their mothers being brutally killed.
Hunters remove more than 1 million metric tons of bushmeat from the Congo Basin forests each year. In only one year, 15,000 carcasses from wild species passed through the markets in the city of Brazzaville - approximately 293 of them were chimpanzees.
It's time the U.S. stood up against the cruel practice pushing chimps and other endangered species to the brink of extinction.
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We signed the “Save Chimpanzees from the Bushmeat Trade!” petition!
# 200:
5:41 am PDT, Oct 4,
Gereld Boffa, New Jersey
Congress does much that is good, acting against this would be something great that congress did.
Congress does much that is good, acting against this would be something great that congress did.
# 199:
5:41 am PDT, Oct 4,
Chase Rogers, New York
it's just wrong
it's just wrong
# 198:
5:41 am PDT, Oct 4,
Patricia Collier, Florida
This is 2007, for goodness sakes. Can we as a species stop the abuse of other species once and for all?????
This is 2007, for goodness sakes. Can we as a species stop the abuse of other species once and for all?????
# 197:
5:41 am PDT, Oct 4,
Susanne Stefano, New York
# 196:
5:41 am PDT, Oct 4,
Lawrence Crowley, Colorado
# 195:
5:40 am PDT, Oct 4,
Diane Paulaskas, Georgia
# 194:
5:40 am PDT, Oct 4,
Vicky Castronovo, New Jersey
# 193:
5:40 am PDT, Oct 4,
Amy Stoller, New York
# 192:
5:39 am PDT, Oct 4,
Claudia Provost, Massachusetts
# 191:
5:39 am PDT, Oct 4,
Tracy Udrija, Ohio
# 190:
5:38 am PDT, Oct 4,
Shari English, Australia
# 189:
5:29 am PDT, Oct 4,
Carola Mitchell, North Carolina
We must protect what essentially is our close relatives. I cannot understand that anyone would even eat Chimpanzee meat, it is cannibalism since we share most of our DNA with the Chimps and the Bonobos.
We must protect what essentially is our close relatives. I cannot understand that anyone would even eat Chimpanzee meat, it is cannibalism since we share most of our DNA with the Chimps and the Bonobos.
# 188:
5:13 am PDT, Oct 4,
Jill Joyce, Virginia
This is shameful and terribly sad! Please do what must be done to stop this murdering activity.
This is shameful and terribly sad! Please do what must be done to stop this murdering activity.
# 187:
5:13 am PDT, Oct 4,
Name not displayed, Australia
# 186:
5:10 am PDT, Oct 4,
Brad Miller, Kansas
# 185:
5:10 am PDT, Oct 4,
Jeremy Westerveld, Canada
# 184:
5:10 am PDT, Oct 4,
Laura Schwenke, Germany
# 183:
5:08 am PDT, Oct 4,
Janet Waters, Virgin Islands, British
# 182:
5:07 am PDT, Oct 4,
Lisa Lucas, Ohio
# 181:
5:06 am PDT, Oct 4,
Sofia Santos, Spain
# 180:
4:50 am PDT, Oct 4,
Mary Norton, Maine
AntiChrists need to gane their morals BACK!
AntiChrists need to gane their morals BACK!
# 179:
4:44 am PDT, Oct 4,
Diogo Martins, Portugal
is important to defend the forest and these animals
is important to defend the forest and these animals
# 178:
4:28 am PDT, Oct 4,
Wendy Honigman, Florida
# 177:
4:21 am PDT, Oct 4,
JOHN DONAGHAN, United Kingdom
# 176:
4:21 am PDT, Oct 4,
Anita Sorensen, Denmark
# 175:
4:10 am PDT, Oct 4,
Sean Noyes, Finland
# 174:
4:07 am PDT, Oct 4,
Lydia Bjerke, Netherlands
# 173:
4:06 am PDT, Oct 4,
Erwin Evenepoel, Belgium
# 172:
3:59 am PDT, Oct 4,
Bev Russell, United Kingdom
# 171:
3:57 am PDT, Oct 4,
Joanne D. Ferguson, Ohio
# 170:
3:56 am PDT, Oct 4,
Luis Costa, Portugal
# 169:
3:45 am PDT, Oct 4,
Sonya Dobson, United Kingdom
I really don't know what people are thinking when they do this !!! I will not stop fighting untill all the bad things stop !!!!!!!!!
I really don't know what people are thinking when they do this !!! I will not stop fighting untill all the bad things stop !!!!!!!!!
# 168:
3:43 am PDT, Oct 4,
Lotten Heldtander, Sweden
# 167:
3:37 am PDT, Oct 4,
William Law, Michigan
# 166:
3:30 am PDT, Oct 4,
H. Dittrich, Germany
# 165:
3:21 am PDT, Oct 4,
Liane Scheepers, South Africa
# 164:
3:15 am PDT, Oct 4,
Lenka Sindlerova, Czech Republic
Itīs unbelievable that people are able to hurt their close relatives, who are as inteligent and sensitive as five years old child! Could you hurt or kill small children?
Itīs unbelievable that people are able to hurt their close relatives, who are as inteligent and sensitive as five years old child! Could you hurt or kill small children?
# 163:
3:08 am PDT, Oct 4,
Merissa Hatcher, Kentucky
# 162:
2:42 am PDT, Oct 4,
Charles Hixon, Hawaii
# 161:
2:41 am PDT, Oct 4,
Barbara Miller, New Jersey
# 160:
2:36 am PDT, Oct 4,
Jenny Abderehim, Switzerland
# 159:
2:33 am PDT, Oct 4,
Balsem Seghaier, Tunisia
# 158:
2:19 am PDT, Oct 4,
Kirsten Snaphaan, Netherlands
# 157:
2:17 am PDT, Oct 4,
Sarah Ruth, New Zealand
# 156:
2:04 am PDT, Oct 4,
ROBERT STREBECK, Texas
# 155:
1:59 am PDT, Oct 4,
Fiona Grieves, United Kingdom
# 154:
1:41 am PDT, Oct 4,
Timothy Bruck, Ohio
# 153:
1:40 am PDT, Oct 4,
Loreal Edelen, Indiana
# 152:
1:38 am PDT, Oct 4,
Mikael Hellberg, Sweden
# 151:
1:27 am PDT, Oct 4,
Regina Wirth, Germany