SAVE THE BONOBOS

THE ANIMALS AND EARTH NEED YOUR HELP NOWThere is not enough food for everyone to eat everywhere & not enough water to drink. Overpopulation along with UNsustainable LIVING. Do Wealthy Peoples Dogs eat more than the people (whom eat the animals that are extinct?, or going extinct?)Plant Fruit Trees and Trees period. Our Trees and animals are disappearing along with the rivers of all ancient peoples.Look Outside Yourself, You are not YOU. Dissolve the selfishness into ALTRUISM. Remember MLK and Ghandi for they taught -One Dream Can Change Everything-Move On From the Past as the Past Experiance is just a thread of dead skin of What you Really Are. Namaskar.The world has come to a 40 year tipping point friends.-FACTS- (Empirical Evidence, like watching what makes your car, refrigerator, electricity, etc. work)Global Warming THE ICE IS MELTING, Are you gonna tell your grand kids what polar bears and gorillas looked like? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming http://news.google.com/news?q=global+warming&hl=en&l r=&sa=X&oi=news&ct=title http://www.climatehotmap.org/ http://fightglobalwarming.com/?source=searchg_200701Desertif ication of the Earth http://www.minpriroda.by/www.unccd.minpriroda.by/news_en.sht ml http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/desertification/desertn ews.htm http://www.afrol.com/articles/12828Permanent Deforestation of the Earth (40 years till all other non-human sentient apes are extinct, see Xenocide below with dolphins along with 75% of our current Rain-forests) most of this is done to feed your European cattle which have eaten all the rest of the land into dust and cows also cause more global warming than your cars from the methane they release so please eat LESS or NO beef http://www.fao.org/AG/AGAInfo/resources/documents/pol-briefs /03/EN/AGA04_EN_05.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeforestationAll Sea Life to be dead by 2048- Unsustainable Fishing Practices and Plastics- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/leadingedge_20061102.sht ml http://www.livescience.com/environment/061102_marine_loss.ht mlThis means no dolphins, whales, sharks, and we will have succeeded in committing XENOCIDE (worse than Geno but the extermination and extinction of a species) against creatures evolved enough to speak languages of thousands of words and the same highly emotional function learning mammalian brain we share, IT HAS STARTED, the 1st major marine mammal to go extinct that has lived for 20 MILLION YEARS, the white dolphin is no more :_( http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/13/china.dolphin.ap/ index.html Also with the extinction of Gorillas, Bonobos, Orangutan's, and Chimps this will mean we humans will snuff out more than entire peoples and nations of these creatures (which we have already done) but the SPECIES, these creatures are more than adorable and cute but possess culture, multiple tool use, their own language, the ability to speak thousands and thousands of OUR language (See Kanzi and Panbanisha www.greatapetrust.org). To destroy them will be the Greatest Act of Human Terrorism and most evil act ever perpetuated along with the Xenocides we have already committed and species we humans have already destroyed. Imagine if you saw your parents and entire family murdered in front of you and eaten, then you were sold into slavery and you saw the entire human species killed and survivors put into slavery and medical experimentation and infected with HIV and other goodies. That is what WE ARE DOING, not us per-say but a few greedy individuals perpetuating many destructive unsustainable lifestyles. The problem is that when the Bonobos go extinct also that we will have killed the only culture-complex sentient creature that doesn't kill, rape, or war against its own species. Even if humans can survive this great 40-100 year time we will have a permanent black stain on our record that will haunt humans 5 million years from now, how would you expect to explain to peaceful alien life that your kind killed off an entire sentient PEACEFULL species that was also your closest living relative?6th GREAT MASS EXTINCTION in BILLIONS of Years, SEEN worldwide http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3667300.stm http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html http://biology.about.com/library/weekly/aa030200a.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3897120Please not only Educate yourselves but others even beyond personal friends and family, because we need social and environmental JUSTICE now more than ever and the time is TICKING, either PEOPLE WILL CHANGE in the next 40 years or this time will be known as the Great Unraveling and Permanent Destruction to the Earths animals or the a time of a Great Turning which humans can follow through with sustainable living.
Save The Bonobos is dedicated to working with and bringing together all individuals who wish to save the Bonobos.
Less than 5,000 of your closest relative, the Bonobo, remain. The only sentient species not to kill its own kind, the Bonobo is being eaten at an alarming rate for food. Bonobos walk bipedally (on two feet). They are highly intelligent. Some bonobos in captivity have even learned to use human language.
Peaceful and Powered By Females:
In contrast to the competitive, male-dominated culture of their close relative the chimpanzee, Bonobo society is peaceful, matriarchal and egalitarian. Bonobos live in large groups where harmonious coexistence is their way.
Bonobos eat a variety of foods, including fruits, nuts, seeds, sprouts, vegetation and mushrooms. They eat various parts of plants, including the leaves, flowers, bark, stems, pith and roots. Unlike chimpanzees who form hunting parties to capture monkeys, bonobos do not aggressively hunt mammals.
Bonobos and humans share 98.4% of the same genetic make-up (DNA). Bonobos and their cousins the chimpanzees, are more closely related genetically to us than they are to gorillas! But, like gorillas, they dwell only in the equatorial forests of central Africa, the cradle of humanity itself.
THE BUSHMEAT CRISIS & EMINENT EXTINCTION ---------------
The Cairo Connection: "How this vile smuggling trade is allowed to flourish": 13 October 2006.By Anton Antonowicz
The chainsaw slices through the base of yet another huge tree in the African forest. We cannot hear it. But we know it happens every day.
A few weeks later, a man fires his shotgun in the new clearing. Again, it is unheard.
The hunter's first cartridge kills a female gorilla. His second slays the male he knows will try to charge.
The hunter relaxes, reloads and searches for the young who will be nearby. He has killed the family's elder offspring for bush meat. The babies he may keep for sale.
Logging. Hunting. Death. Profit. And the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.
Since the opening of Africa's forests to European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in central Africa has exploded. What once was subsistence is now a commercial and completely unsustainable business.
Unchecked, the rate of slaughter of the great apes will bring about their extinction in a few decades. And what of those left alive?
It is a decade since this newspaper launched a campaign to break the trade. It began when I travelled to Cameroon - a nation described as "the most corrupt on earth" by the Environmental Defense Fund.
With campaigning photographer Karl Amman, I witnessed bush meat trains arriving in Yaounde, the capital. This trade, supposedly banned' this train slowing half-a-mile before the end of the line to offload three tonnes daily. Not a policeman in sight. Just a machete-wielding gang which ordered us away or face a slashing. We stopped to eat at Hotel Le Ranch and found two baby chimps in a wooden cage. Next to a tin of flyinfested fruit was a cardboard whiskybox marked "Fragile". Inside, beneath a soiled rag, a month-old baby gorilla.
The hotel manager offered it for sale at $35,163,300. We ignored him. He shrugged. There were plenty others ready to pay the price. And they still are.
For the past year, Karl and I have tracked one of the worst of their kind. The journey traced through Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya and on to Egypt...
This story begins in late January 2005, when six chimpanzees - with a black market value of $35,163,10,750 each - were confiscated at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Kenya. The consignment, disguised as a kennel of dogs, had begun its journey from Kano, Nigeria, to Khartoum, Sudan. It travelled on as a tarmac transfer to Cairo. Rejected there, it was redirected to Nigeria, where Kenyan officials impounded it.
ONE chimp died while the five others, so starved they were eating their own faeces, were taken to a rescue centre, where a wealthy American conservationist cares for them. (Chimps live 50 years. The owner faces a potential bill of $1million.)
When no such benefactor is available, the animals are killed. For example, in 2001, Egyptian airport officials drowned an illegally transported chimp and gorilla in a vat of chemicals. It caused an international outcry and a declaration from CITES (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species) that this would never happen again, with a vow to prosecute the smugglers. Empty words.
Both incidents are linked. Both shipments were sent by 54-year-old Heba Abdel Moty Ahmed Saad. This woman has both Nigerian and Egyptian citizenship. She has, according to Professor Samy El Fellaly, an Egyptian environment department official, been in "the Monkey Business" for 30 years and is one of Africa's major traffickers.
Under the CITES rules, permits are necessary for the import, export and trade of gorillas, chimps and bonobos. In fact, apes caught in the wild cannot be traded at all.
Heba plays fast and loose with permits and rules. "It is easy in Africa to get documents," says Dr Mohammed Assad, quarantine manager at Cairo airport. "Heba makes a lot of trouble. When we ask her why she takes these animals from the wild, she says she does it to save them. So what can we say?"
Mike Pugh, an RSPCA inspector formerly with the World Society For The Protection Of Animals, shakes his head.
He tracked Heba down to the animal market in Kano in 1997. "There were chimpanzees there which had been taken from Cameroon," he says, "Heba was a well-known buyer. By my estimate she was exporting between 50-100 chimps annually and a dozen or more gorillas. She was notorious for it."
Many of the animals - and only one out of 10 are estimated to survive the journey - are bound for the private zoos of Gulf princes and businessmen. Some are allegedly imported for vivisection. Others go to tourist resorts in Egypt.
Eventually, our trail led to Sharm El Sheik and one of its best-known resorts - the Tower complex, patronised by Tony Blair, ex-president Bill Clinton, Egypt's leader Hosni Mubarak and owned by Gamal Omar.
The zoo he runs is situated behind guest villas. It is his pride and joy. Filming secretly, Karl discovered 11 chimps and two gorillas held in cages. "There was not a blade of grass or a tree. Just bare floors and bars," Karl says. "It is a miserable facility and a real animal welfare issue." Prof Fellaly, also CITES boss in Egypt, says: "We know Omar paid for the animals on the black market but we let him keep them until we decide what to do with them. These creatures are lucky to be living there. It is a good place, a recognised sanctuary by the Ministry. We don't have the money, so we leave it to Omar."
It is a classic Pontius Pilate washing-of-hands. The same reaction we find when we interview Dr Ragy Toma, director of wildlife in Egypt. "What can we do? Confiscate them? Put them where?" he asks.
So, despite the laws, Mr Omar can buy his animals on the black market, parade them for guests, knowing no one is willing or able to touch him. And no one willing to repatriate the animals to their country of origin as CITES demand. So this tragic travesty continues. In countries such as Egypt where traffickers like Mrs Heba flourish.
When confronted at her sixth-floor Cairo apartment, she wailed: "What can I do? I've no sources to get money. I have three daughters at university and I am a poor woman."
Shortly afterwards, we photograph her leaving home in her brand-new Renault.
So far, the only organisation to crack down is the World Zoo Association, which has severed all links with official Egyptian zoos. This means that Egypt cannot import any animals from accredited zoos.
CITES itself has only one official dealing with trafficking. He is John Sellar, a former British policeman, who says: "If there is evidence of animals having been illegally imported into Egypt, then we'd be willing to raise such issues with the authorities there. But it is difficult to pursue speculative cases."
Karl believes the problem with conventions like CITES is that they rely on the home country. "If that country is corrupt or poorly run, you have a situation in which the wolves are left guarding the hen-house."
And so laws are flouted. International authorities prefer to look the other way. Traffickers like Heba can give two fingers to the world. The rich can parade their living trophies...
While great trees fall and our closest ancestors scream into oblivion. Unheard.
"These creatures will be extinct in a few decadeshttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=slaughter-of -the-apes-&method=full&objectid=17923627&siteid= 94762-name_page.html
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: A population equivalent tens of millions of humans are being killed every week. The percentage of the Bonobo population has declined and plummeted from tree gathered cities of hundreds of thousands to now less than 5,000. The Congo Hippo last year was in the same situation, but now, because of bush meat camps in the DRC, the Congo Hippo population (perhaps the original hippo sub-species to come from the oceans whale like ancestors?) is now less than 400 and soon will be extinct (SEE BLOG).
The last remaining sentient species whose entire population/race/peoples and indeed biological species besides certain cetacean species is now facing Eminent extinction.
EMINENT EXTINCTION means for the Bonobo and the Earth the loss of a Biped Ape (closest relative of living man) that only practiced peace and love (brotherly, honorably, and otherwise). Take a moment to ponder God or an alien's reaction to the MURDER of and XENOCIDE (worse than genocide this would be like killing all humans or dolphins) of these peace loving beings. We are not talking about a subspecies that will still live on through its cousins but rather an entire species like all Lowland and Mountain Gorillas.
I imagine that humans would have to be exterminated themselves on site for any CREATURE capable of killing off a peaceful sentient race of creatures that can learn thousands and thousands words of our languages (ASL and others) communicate with syntax complicated language of missing the rain forests (like Koko too) and yearning and loving of life and friends and food and soul, beyond many things. Now God, The Ancients, or Aliens will by threat of the human race then destroy all humans or dream life no longer reasoning a reason not to have Armageddon, my Friends.
Think of it like science fiction.
Imagine Humans meeting a race of species that were like gigantic ants that ate and ate and ate and out consumed everything. Now imagine that these ants have killed an entire species of peaceful sentient dolphin babies that were the cutest, most peaceful species in the UNIVERSE and never harmed or raped each other. The human species would have to fight this encroachment. Wouldn't you agree?
I say all this to challenge your views of our actions.
Do we wish to become a GENOCIDAL, and now SENTIENT XENOCIDAL, species that consumes everything?
EMINENT EXTINCTION for the bonobos means that humans have not only become worse than a race and species of killers and rapists, but one of XENOCIDE for consumption.The truth is the DRC (Dem. Rep. of Congo) isn't fucked up because the people are all scumbags or killers but that we use computers, cell phones, wear gold and diamonds and have the Internet. WITHOUT THE CONGO THERE WOULD BE NO INTERNET, no computers, no cell phones, no technology to share this vital information with you.
Almost all COLTAN comes from the DRC. And foreign powers, colonialism 40 years ago, US governmental interference and assassination of democratically elected leaders (for the 'cold war') and even the most recent AFRICAN WORLD WAR which 7*** (many others too) countries fought each other for control the resources of the congo (corporate and otherwise). Let's not forget the industrialized corporations with many faces doing biz for the coltan and gold.
So 4 million dead people later and extinct hippos and now soon to be extinct Bonobos....... which just happen to be a recently discovered ape that looks like our ancestors and whom happens to be speaking to us thousands of English words and whom never rapes nor murders nor wars (like humans and chimps) but rather still has the capability to evolve and has already achieved world peace for its species.
www.allafrica.com (Afrikan news from many many sources and news agencys) (Congo-Kinshasha)
www.bonobo.org BCI and the great work they do!
www.awf.org
www.greatapetrust.org (for the bonobos who can talk :)
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