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US-CONGO-BONOBO
This African Wildlife Foundation handout photo received 07 October 2005 shows a bonobo. Just weeks after 27 nations signed the world’s first declaration on protecting Great Apes, the UN Kinshasa Declaration, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is taking proactive steps to ensure the survival of one of the most threatened primate species in Africa, the bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee, whose numbers have been decimated in the tropical forests of war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo. The bonobos, genetically our closest relative and known for resolving conflict through sex rather than violence, are being slaughtered for food in post-war Congo, where their numbers are estimated to have fallen from as many as 100,000 in the mid-1990s to some 20,000 or less today. Some experts predict the bonobo could be wiped out in a generation. â€oIf we want to protect the bonobo, which is urgently needed, we have to do something for the local people,â€? says Jef Dupain, an African Wildlife Foundation primatologist who has spent more than a decade on the frontlines in the Congo working with the bonobos. AFP PHOTO/AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION/HO/JOHN WATKIN/RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE=GETTY OUT=
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Washington UNITED STATES, 07 oct |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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JOHN WATKIN |
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7 Octombrie 2005 |
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1875 x 2633 (2.35 MB) |
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