Ape Meat Sold in U.S., European Black Markets

Thursday, 20 July 2006

Meat from chimpanzees, gorillas, and other wild African animals is popping up in illegal markets in the United States and Europe, a new investigation reveals. "Bush meat" consumption is widespread in western and central Africa (Africa map). There, the poor have traditionally trapped wild animals as a form of subsistence hunting to help feed their families and villages. Read on: National Geographic

 

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