Eating Apes (eBook)

Dale Peterson (Autor)

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2003
333 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-93842-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 exposé 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.

Inhalt

Foreword, by Janet K. Museveni 

INTRODUCTION 
1 LAUGHTER 
2 BEGINNINGS 
3 DEATH 
4 FLESH 
5 BLOOD 
6 BUSINESS 
7 DENIAL 
8 A STORY 
9 HISTORY 

Afterword, by Karl Ammann 

Appendix A. Saving the Apes 
Appendix B. Further Reading 
Appendix C. The Primate Family Tree 
Appendix D. The HIV/SIV Family Tree 
Maps 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Acknowledgments 
Index 
Color plates

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2003
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: african apes • african forests • American Media • ape populations • ape slaughter • asian companies • Bonobos • Bush meat • Central Africa • Chimpanzees • color photographs • commercial ape meat • conservation • consumption of animals • easy to read • Endangered Species • environmental loss • european companies • evolutionary relatives • expose piece • extinction • Gorillas • Great Apes • karl ammann • Logging • Nonfiction • population collapse • Primates • primatology
• ISBN-10: 0-520-93842-9 / 0520938429
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93842-7 / 9780520938427