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Gorillas and chimpanzees extinct by 2015? |
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Monday, 07 April 2003 |
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Gorillas and chimpanzees will be virtually extinct within a decade
unless drastic action is taken. Thats the message of a new
study of mans closest animal relatives in Africa, and published
in the journal Nature. Hunting and the deadly Ebola virus have
contributed to a collapse in ape numbers in Gabon and
neighbouring Congo, where four out of five of the worlds gorillas
and most of its common chimpanzees live. Hunting used to be
low-level and village-based but has become commercial scale.
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