Wildlife Conservation Organization
If someone were to destroy your grandmother’s house in order to sell the materials for a profit would you be OK with it? Unfortunately our race, the human race, is doing that exact thing to our closest living relatives in Continue Reading
Mozambique was torn apart by civil war in 1977. During that war, 1,000,000 people died as well as almost the entire zebra, buffalo, and hippo population due to cross-fire killing. About 95% of the large animal population was decimated in Continue Reading
Gorillas, the largest of the great apes, are under renewed threat across the Congo Basin from Nigeria to the Albertine Rift: poaching for bushmeat, loss of habitat due to agricultural expansion, degradation of habitat from logging, mining and charcoal production Continue Reading
Scientists warn that all gorillas could be killed in the Congo River Basin by the mid 2020s if action is not taken. Militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have greatly exacerbated the poaching problem by smuggling bush meat through the Continue Reading
Research in the Congo River Basin has determined that 3 million tons of bushmeat are being removed every year, the equivalent of butchering 740,000 bull elephants. Malnutrition and the ease of access to weapons has caused the rate of poaching Continue Reading