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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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12:11 pm PDT, May 29,
Hannah Fisher, United Kingdom
..the whole thought of the bushmeat trade just makes me feel physically sick and extremely emotional! It truely is gross. |
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Dear [Decision maker], I am outraged by the killing of chimpanzees and other imperiled wildlife species for the so-called bushmeat trade - a cruel practice that pushing great apes and other species to the very brink of extinction. As your constituent, I strongly urge you to support legislation to discourage the bushmeat trade and other destructive activities - like irresponsible logging and mining practices - that contribute to it. [Your comment] Sincerely, l.karneris
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8:24 pm PDT, May 23,
Tanya Payne, Massachusetts
www.thepetitionsite.com/7/stop-killing-our-wolves-in-alaska-and-the-usa PleAse, I emplOre you.......stop this disHonorabLe and Cruel practice.....yOu have the poWer to do what the MajoRity of peoPle worldwide WANT YOU TO DO.!!!! |
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STOP THE STUPID ANIMAL KILLING!!!!!!!!THIS IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!HELP THIS ANIMALS NOT EATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SHAME ON YOU ON ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!STOP THE MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!
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8:52 am PDT, May 3,
Tanya Payne, Massachusetts
I am so passionate about this horrific injustice toward such an incredibly intelligent species....please, I implore you, Sirs and Madams, to put a stop to this unforgivable and truely a travesty against the creator. Also, please sign and re-post the following petition to save our grey wolves.......thank you, tanya payne petition overview | letter Stop killing "our" Wolves in Alaska and the USATarget:President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick ChaneySponsored by: tan's alt movement:..............target: President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Chaney: On behalf of the following petitioners, PLEASE STOP the AERIAL GUNNING SLAUGHTER on "OUR" wolves in Alaska. Today would be a wonderful day to do exactly that. If you care, as you claim to, about all American Citizens; I ask you this question. "HOW CAN YOU ORDER AND ALLOW such an HORINDOUS and INEXCUSIBLE COLD-BLOODED ASSAULT on one of America's most beloved and revered creatures, THE WOLF?"..........So help me, I cannot see a dog lover allowing this travesty of justice. PLEASE ReCONSIDER your decision and orders to exterminate one of "GOD'S" most noble creatures. The wolf is an integral and absolutely a necessary part of the "real west", the natural eco-system. I had hoped you would value the life of at least a WOLF. If you would educate yourself just a "bit" about the part a WOLF plays in the natural order of things. HE is very very important. Help "SAVE" one of GOD'S most majestic and social creatures, the wolf, and you will not be remembered as the one who made absolutely sure the WOLF becomes extinct. The sad part is, the cowardly fashion by the shooter, in which the WOLF must face death! We, The American People HAVE MOST DEFINITELY seen it. Many videos and activists will never allow this one to go away. Thank you, sirs, for taking the time to consider this urgent issue; and please do the Right Thing this time. Sincerely, signature goal: 1,000 670 signatures! |
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Please take action on this important issue right now!!!