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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!
# 250:
5:48 am PDT, Oct 4,
Relf A Star, California
# 249:
5:48 am PDT, Oct 4,
Ben Bryant, New York
# 248:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
David Sandbeck, North Dakota
Chimpanzees deserve a better than being eaten by humans.
Chimpanzees deserve a better than being eaten by humans.
# 247:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Dianne Kurtz, Florida
Why kill them?It makes no sense at all.Take a look in to their faces and you will see that they do show emotions just like we do.Please stop killing them....PLEASE.
Why kill them?It makes no sense at all.Take a look in to their faces and you will see that they do show emotions just like we do.Please stop killing them....PLEASE.
# 246:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Renee Williams, Ohio
# 245:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Gail Carpiniello, Massachusetts
# 244:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Carol Mcardell, Colorado
This is deplorable! Next they will be selling off children.
This is deplorable! Next they will be selling off children.
# 243:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Carolyn Fohl, Tennessee
Please put a stop to this terrible practice. It is our duty to take care of this planet and the animals that live here. Cows - were put here for eating. Not chimpanzees.
Please put a stop to this terrible practice. It is our duty to take care of this planet and the animals that live here. Cows - were put here for eating. Not chimpanzees.
# 242:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Vickie Brown, Texas
# 241:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Name not displayed, California
Please do somthing to stop this
Please do somthing to stop this
# 240:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
William F Klein, California
# 239:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Angela Petrie, New York
# 238:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 4,
Brad Taylor, Iowa
# 237:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Carol Tremblay, New Hampshire
# 236:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Viveca L. Coleman, Illinois
# 235:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Patricia Myerson, Massachusetts
# 234:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Alisha Workman, Mississippi
Please stop this barbaric act!
Please stop this barbaric act!
# 233:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Janet Marineau, Connecticut
# 232:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
PATRICIA BAUGH, Iowa
# 231:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Susan Franconi-salmon, Massachusetts
# 230:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Sandra Sobanski, New Jersey
# 229:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Sarah Kahn, North Carolina
# 228:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Tammy Kennedy, Florida
# 227:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 226:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Joni Scalf, Georgia
If we want to police the world, we need to stand up as a nation and do it as it should be done. These animals deserve protection before it's too late.
If we want to police the world, we need to stand up as a nation and do it as it should be done. These animals deserve protection before it's too late.
# 225:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
RACHEL NELSON, Wisconsin
If we don't take a stand for these animals who will? They are one of man's closest relatives and by allowing them to be slaughtered, we are coming one step closer to allowing this to be okay with man kind as well.
If we don't take a stand for these animals who will? They are one of man's closest relatives and by allowing them to be slaughtered, we are coming one step closer to allowing this to be okay with man kind as well.
# 224:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
Dawn M Desser, New York
This is like killing a human.... Animals have feeling's also.
This is like killing a human.... Animals have feeling's also.
# 223:
5:46 am PDT, Oct 4,
John Munro, Oklahoma
# 222:
5:45 am PDT, Oct 4,
A.B. Paterson, Connecticut
# 221:
5:45 am PDT, Oct 4,
Stephanie Walker, Australia
# 220:
5:44 am PDT, Oct 4,
Milissa ONeill, Michigan
# 219:
5:44 am PDT, Oct 4,
Susan Fusner, Indiana
# 218:
5:44 am PDT, Oct 4,
Mary Spear, Maine
Please take a stand!! this is horrible those poor animals - they are part of us!! look into their eyes!!
Please take a stand!! this is horrible those poor animals - they are part of us!! look into their eyes!!
# 217:
5:44 am PDT, Oct 4,
Annie Peterson, Kentucky
# 216:
5:44 am PDT, Oct 4,
Kandie Cook, Texas
do we just want to eat ANYthing that lives? this is ridiculous! next i guess you'll start allowing people to buy human corpses for consumption...
do we just want to eat ANYthing that lives? this is ridiculous! next i guess you'll start allowing people to buy human corpses for consumption...
# 215:
5:44 am PDT, Oct 4,
Evie Chouinard, Connecticut
# 214:
5:44 am PDT, Oct 4,
Triska Drake, Georgia
# 213:
5:43 am PDT, Oct 4,
Chetna Pittea, United Kingdom
# 212:
5:43 am PDT, Oct 4,
Lisa McCartin, Virginia
Please stop the murdering of chimpanzees!
Please stop the murdering of chimpanzees!
# 211:
5:43 am PDT, Oct 4,
Terza Ekholm, Colorado
# 210:
5:43 am PDT, Oct 4,
Barbara Berube, Canada
I find this practice barbaric all for the mighty dollar; these so called "people" (and I use the term loosely) should be punished by locking them in the same sort of cage these precious near human creatures are put in and throw away the key!!!! This should not be tolerated by any means!! REmember what goes around COMES AROUND.
I find this practice barbaric all for the mighty dollar; these so called "people" (and I use the term loosely) should be punished by locking them in the same sort of cage these precious near human creatures are put in and throw away the key!!!! This should not be tolerated by any means!! REmember what goes around COMES AROUND.
# 209:
5:43 am PDT, Oct 4,
Chuck Lakel, Colorado
# 208:
5:43 am PDT, Oct 4,
Shawna Thompson, Ohio
# 207:
5:43 am PDT, Oct 4,
Robert Beard, Texas
# 206:
5:42 am PDT, Oct 4,
Lisa Openshaw, California
We must stop this cruelty to animals and destruction of the planet we share.
We must stop this cruelty to animals and destruction of the planet we share.
# 205:
5:42 am PDT, Oct 4,
Debra Burk, Ohio
Please HELP STOP this DESTRUCTION!
Please HELP STOP this DESTRUCTION!
# 204:
5:42 am PDT, Oct 4,
RevDrAtmaShanti Devi RodriguezPhD, Florida
# 203:
5:42 am PDT, Oct 4,
Name not displayed, New York
No shortage of demented actions in this world. NO one cares about anything. What a sickening shame. Hope it changes next year. It's a sick world.
No shortage of demented actions in this world. NO one cares about anything. What a sickening shame. Hope it changes next year. It's a sick world.
# 202:
5:42 am PDT, Oct 4,
Elizabeth Enright, Arizona
Speak out now before it is to late for these beautiful animals.
Speak out now before it is to late for these beautiful animals.
# 201:
5:42 am PDT, Oct 4,
Sondra Delegato, Ohio