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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!
# 21,300:
9:44 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Beth OHara, Maine
# 21,299:
9:33 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Don Gossett, Minnesota
Recent studies in cognitive ethology strongly indicate, in my opinion, that many animal species are not only self-aware but also possess self-consciousness. In effect, this places other animal species on the same level as human species. The question I raise is not if we have the legal right to harm or kill animals, but with good conscience, do we have the moral right to do so. The question is, “do other individual animals besides individual human animals have a right to live?” Personally, I do believe they have a right to live and that it’s up to us humans to learn to coexist with other animals.
Recent studies in cognitive ethology strongly indicate, in my opinion, that many animal species are not only self-aware but also possess self-consciousness. In effect, this places other animal species on the same level as human species. The question I raise is not if we have the legal right to harm or kill animals, but with good conscience, do we have the moral right to do so. The question is, “do other individual animals besides individual human animals have a right to live?” Personally, I do believe they have a right to live and that it’s up to us humans to learn to coexist with other animals.
# 21,298:
9:33 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Linda Camp, North Carolina
STOP THE KILLINGS, ALL THAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD IS A BUNCH OF MURDERS KILLING HELPLESS ANIMALS
STOP THE KILLINGS, ALL THAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD IS A BUNCH OF MURDERS KILLING HELPLESS ANIMALS
# 21,297:
7:37 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Jake Taylor, Nevada
# 21,296:
5:36 pm PDT, Mar 29,
Eliza Fowler, Australia
Save the chimps!!!
Save the chimps!!!
# 21,295:
9:08 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Cathy Schrott, California
# 21,294:
5:53 pm PDT, Mar 27,
Valerie Elster, California
Saving animals shifts everyone's perspective!
Saving animals shifts everyone's perspective!
# 21,293:
2:16 pm PDT, Mar 26,
Kate Evans, Georgia
# 21,292:
12:35 am PDT, Mar 26,
Josef Neumueller, Austria
# 21,291:
6:35 pm PDT, Mar 25,
Cheryl Silkett, Missouri
# 21,290:
6:47 am PDT, Mar 25,
Ruth Ferreira, France
# 21,289:
2:42 am PDT, Mar 25,
Connie Steger, Wisconsin
# 21,288:
2:22 am PDT, Mar 24,
Cecy V. Aguirre López, Mexico
# 21,287:
8:23 pm PDT, Mar 23,
Christine Pearson, Arizona
# 21,286:
8:05 pm PDT, Mar 23,
Keith Tarrant, Canada
# 21,285:
7:51 pm PDT, Mar 20,
Melissa Alarcon, California
I am outraged. How small the people are who actually let this happen. I mean how low can you get? Have we not anything else to do then to try to feel better ourselves than trying to destroy and feel as though somewhat we have conquered something by killing helpless creatures? I am very upset. I had no idea this was going on. What disgusting people. The chimps and other beautiful animals that were killed were killed for nonsense. Think about it. I mean really. What gives us as human beings the right to kill? This world is beautiful. We take it for granted. We are not even worthy to live in the ecstacy that god created for us. And for us to take it in our hands and brutally murder it to nothing is completely mad. This must stop.The world will suffer until this ceases.
I am outraged. How small the people are who actually let this happen. I mean how low can you get? Have we not anything else to do then to try to feel better ourselves than trying to destroy and feel as though somewhat we have conquered something by killing helpless creatures? I am very upset. I had no idea this was going on. What disgusting people. The chimps and other beautiful animals that were killed were killed for nonsense. Think about it. I mean really. What gives us as human beings the right to kill? This world is beautiful. We take it for granted. We are not even worthy to live in the ecstacy that god created for us. And for us to take it in our hands and brutally murder it to nothing is completely mad. This must stop.The world will suffer until this ceases.
# 21,284:
1:07 pm PDT, Mar 20,
Joel Graves, California
This is an outrage and must be stopped.
This is an outrage and must be stopped.
# 21,283:
1:07 pm PDT, Mar 20,
Lorna Hudson, United Kingdom
# 21,282:
6:18 pm PDT, Mar 19,
Kat Ferrara, New Jersey
# 21,281:
11:47 am PDT, Mar 19,
Jessica Freake, Canada
# 21,280:
10:52 am PDT, Mar 19,
Angie Arnold, Colorado
# 21,279:
7:57 am PDT, Mar 19,
De Leener Cindy, Belgium
# 21,278:
6:07 pm PDT, Mar 18,
Valeriya Sholokhova, New York
# 21,277:
5:13 pm PDT, Mar 18,
Danielle Tillman, Arizona
# 21,276:
6:06 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Jennie Havens, New Jersey
# 21,275:
5:31 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Emily Bielawski, Illinois
# 21,274:
5:16 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Name not displayed, Missouri
# 21,273:
4:13 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Jennifer Quiring, Canada
# 21,272:
1:32 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Shelby Kibodeaux, Texas
this is SICK!!!!!!!!!
this is SICK!!!!!!!!!
# 21,271:
1:22 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Mariana Perez, Uruguay
# 21,270:
1:16 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Marko Kos, Croatia
# 21,269:
12:42 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Chum Richardson, Canada
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6:11 am PDT, Mar 17,
Emmy Undem, Austria
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2:33 am PDT, Mar 17,
Vivien De Boer-Harm, Belgium
# 21,266:
7:04 pm PDT, Mar 16,
Jennifer Nolen, Alabama
# 21,265:
1:06 pm PDT, Mar 16,
Shaheen Nauman, Pakistan
# 21,264:
8:38 pm PDT, Mar 15,
Matt G., California
# 21,263:
6:35 pm PDT, Mar 15,
Joyce Roark, Kentucky
# 21,262:
2:43 pm PDT, Mar 15,
Lisa Elshaug, Washington
# 21,261:
8:36 am PDT, Mar 15,
Jennifer Pawlowski, Michigan
# 21,260:
8:04 am PDT, Mar 15,
Anne Sophie Brion, France
# 21,259:
7:20 am PDT, Mar 15,
CAROLINA MAJLIS, Denmark
# 21,258:
7:18 am PDT, Mar 15,
Lori Price, Virginia
# 21,257:
3:56 am PDT, Mar 15,
Jennifer Campesi, Pennsylvania
# 21,256:
9:05 pm PDT, Mar 14,
Romelia Iordache, Romania
# 21,255:
8:42 pm PDT, Mar 14,
Amy Jansen, California
# 21,254:
3:37 pm PDT, Mar 14,
Siobhan Harrington, Washington
# 21,253:
10:28 am PDT, Mar 14,
Jessica Orsini, Pennsylvania
# 21,252:
9:31 am PDT, Mar 14,
Jennifer Corkum, Florida
# 21,251:
4:01 pm PDT, Mar 13,
Greg Brandon, Canada