What is American's for the Awareness of Primates as Bushmeat?
I founded Americans for the Awareness of Primates as Bushmeat in the hopes that America would become more aware of the plight that is Primate Bushmeat. AAPB is a Non-Profit Association, striving to raise awareness in colleges, foundations, and teachings. If current trends don't change, the world will lose our closest relatives.
What is Bushmeat?
Bushmeat is the African term for the hunting of endangered or threatened animals. While Bushmeat covers all animals, we only concentrate on Primates. Poachers maim, hunt, and kill primates of all kinds for trophies, rituals, food, and sometimes for no reason at all.
What are the effects of Bushmeat?
The effects of bushmeat are many and wide ranging. Besides the obvious decline of population in Primate species, there are many other effects. Research has shown that HIV can be easily transmitted from chimpanzees to human through consumption. In the longer run, the decline of primate population may have disastrous effects to the native ecologies.
Why should you care about Primate Bushmeat?
The reasons are simple and numerous. Primates are humans closest living relatives and are keys for studying language, cognition, and other areas of intelligence research. Chimpanzee's, for example, have 98.8% the same DNA as humans. We would also be destroying the worlds common ancestry. Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, suggests that all "primates could be extinct within twenty years." Think of your children or grandchildren going to the zoo and not seeing the gorillas and monkeys, think about what your childhood zoo visits would have been like.
How can you join AAPB?
If you would like to join the AAPB Mailing List, email me at contactaapb@gmail.com and I'll get you signed up for the newsletter!
I'd like to apologize for the website being a little messy, it's still under construction but I will work on it as much as I can. Thanks, Andrew Holtzclaw-Founder AAPB
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