Al Jazeera article on ape trade crackdown
Cameroon, 5 Jan 2015
For years, traffickers fuelled the slaughter of gorillas and chimpanzees in Cameroon's rainforests to meet demand for bush meat - an activity conservationists feared could wipe out the great apes in the wild in a few decades.
But now they fear that a far worse scenario is taking place.
A previously unknown trade in ape heads, bones and limbs - rather than full bodies for meat - is encouraging poachers to kill more animals than they had done previously. Wldlife law enforcement officials say it is speeding up population decline.
