Eating Apes

Dale Peterson, Karl Amman

320 pages, parution le 04/06/2003

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Résumé

Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes-chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by compelling color photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster.

Eating Apes persuasively argues that the American conservation media have failed to report the ongoing collapse of the ape population. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.

Introduction
Laughter
Beginnings
Death
Flesh
Blood
Business
Denial
A story
History
Appendixes

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Éditeur(s)	University of California Press
Auteur(s)	Dale Peterson, Karl Amman
Parution	04/06/2003
Nb. de pages	320
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	625g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780520230903
ISBN13	978-0-520-23090-3