[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Gorillas on the menu in meat trade
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- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 07:54:43 +0200
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Gorillas on the menu in meat trade
DPA
07jul06
CHIMPANZEES and gorillas are finding their way on to dinner tables in western
Europe and the US, an investigation has found.
The investigation, by a biologist from the University of California at
Berkeley, has discovered that primates, including the great apes, make up
nearly a third of the illegal trade in African bushmeat.
Justin Brashares recruited 15 volunteers, all expatriates from west Africa, to
visit clandestine meat markets in London, Paris, Brussels, New York, Chicago,
Montreal and Toronto.
They discovered that just over 6000kg of bushmeat moves through the seven
markets each month. Prof Brashares believes this could be an underestimate.
"I have 27 records of chimpanzee and gorilla parts being sold in the markets,"
the magazine quoted him as saying.
"In each case it was not a complete body, but a hand, leg, or in two cases, a
head."
Guenon monkeys and baboons were a big part of the trade. Also sold were small
antelopes called duikers, as well as rodents, reptiles and birds.
Bushmeat was often smuggled in from Africa concealed beneath legal shipments of
smoked or dried fish. The investigation, published in New Scientist, has
confirmed long-running rumours of such an illegal market.
Glyn Davies, director of conservation at the Zoological Society of London, said
bushmeat traders were occasionally arrested in London.
"The bushmeat trade is huge and supports thousands of people in Africa," he
said.
African governments needed to be made aware of the millions of dollars spent on
the parallel economy of the bushmeat trade.
International demand for bushmeat was not driven by need, Prof Brashares
pointed out.
"It's part of what is clearly a luxury trade," he said.
"They could go and buy a filet mignon in London for what they're paying for a
baboon."
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