Eating Apes: Volume 6 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520243323)

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 expos? 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.

Author: Dale Peterson
ISBN-10: 0520243323
ISBN-13: 9780520243323
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2004
Pages: 329
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.74w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/10/2004 pg. 26