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Gorillas that time forgot



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Published Date: 09 August 2008
Mairi MacLeod says the discovery of 125,000 gorillas simply underlines the need for conservation
ALL this week, Edinburgh has been a hotbed of gossip about monkeys, apes and prosimians, as 1,200 primate experts converged for the 22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society.

A key topic, of course, has been conservation, and at th...



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Unimpressed one,

09/08/2008 10:32:32
“It’s big money and gets shipped to cities,” says Williamson. The meat isn’t needed for feeding the population, it’s about status and culture: “It’s purely a preference, like people in the UK eating game.”

Based on that last hypocritical sentence, this sums up the eco-colonialist attitude to Africans that still persists in this country. I reckon we might just have something to say if Africans dictated to us their views on the way treat our indigenous wildlife.
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Neil,

Glasgow 09/08/2008 12:01:09
An extra 125,000 gorillas is proof of need for more action to stop extinction. Wonder what if would have meant if the numbers had ben less than thought.

 

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