Apes in the News

The Apes in the News page lists a summary and links to news articles that are relevant to the work of the Ape Alliance and ape conservation.

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Captive Orangutans May Soon Be Freed

Tanjung Puting National Park. Their black eyes peer from the slats of wooden cages, hundreds of orangutans orphaned after their mothers were shot or hacked to death for straying out of Indonesia's rapidly disappearing forests in search of food.

No one wants to get them back into the wild as much as Birute Mary Galdikas, who has devoted a lifetime to studying the great red apes, now on the verge of extinction.

And for the first time in years, there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon, thanks to a Hong Kong-based development company's plans to protect a 224,866-acre (91,000-hectare) peatland forest along Tanjung Puting National Park's eastern edge.

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/captive-orangutans-may-soon-be-freed/426946

06/03/2011
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Central African Chimpanzee Wins Fresh Start in South Africa

A young male chimpanzee that was one of the only animals living in the remains of a Central African Republic (CAR) zoo was transferred successfully this week to the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) -Chimpanzee Eden sanctuary, where he will eventually join established social groups in free-range enclosures.

Claude, who is approximately eight years of age, was flown out on a South African Defense Force C-130 cargo plane. He becomes the 33rd orphaned chimpanzee at JGI-Chimpanzee Eden.

http://www.pasaprimates.org/new-headlines/

06/03/2011
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SCANDAL OF THE RARE APE MEAT BUTCHERS

After disturbing evidence that flesh from endangered species is being sold in British markets, we reveal how this grotesque practice could have terrible consequences.

Which kind of meat costs slightly less per kilo than fillet of beef but is around twice the price of Welsh lamb and four times that of free-range chicken? The answer is chimpanzee and if you think that's a) sick or b) cheating because you can't buy chimp meat in Britain, you could be right on the first count but you're wrong on the second.

01/03/2011
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Customs capacity building in Africa to combat illicit wildlife trade

Africa | March 2011

Over 100 seizures of wildlife protected by the

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

were made in a two-week transregional operation in January and February 2011

to combat the illegal cross-border trade in great apes and other wildlife species including their derivatives.

Increasing wildlife crime and associated corruption is a matter of grave concern to governments and the international community;

being on the frontline at international border crossings enables

Customs to play a critical role in the fight against transnational organized crime which is

more often than not linked to the smuggling of endangered species.

01/03/2011
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Meat from chimpanzees 'is on sale in Britain' in lucrative black market

Chimpanzee meat is for sale in restaurants and market stalls in Britain, it has emerged.

Trading standards officials uncovered the illegal bushmeat from the endangered species whilst testing samples believed to be seized from vendors in the Midlands.

The meat, which can cost more than £20 a kilogram, is part of a lucrative black market trade that experts describe as ‘rife' in Europe.

Last year, the first research on the import of bushmeat into Europe found over 270 tonnes passing through the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris alone.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361149/Chimpanzee-meat-discovered-British-restaurants-market-stalls.html

28/02/2011
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