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Title: Eating Apes by Dale Peterson ISBN: 0-520-23090-6 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Difficult to digest but a must-read nonetheless
Comment: With its appealing cover-picture of two baby chimps and its appalling title, "Eating Apes" is a must read for everybody interested in conservation in general and the survival of the great apes in particular. Although I've been already aware of the bushmeat crisis through voluntary work at a zoo, this book hit me hard. The scope of denial by many - individuals and conservation groups alike - paired with risky relationships between NGOs and logging companies is driving our closest living relatives - the great apes - to extinction. Dale Peterson's book encompasses every aspect of this difficult and very complex issue and Karl Ammann's pictures and comments provide further evidence of what really is happening. Everbody who makes or is going to make decisions regarding the bushmeat trade, logging, development and conservation in central Africa has to read this book before making those important and far-reaching decisions. My next task will be to check with the various conservation groups I support, to find out what they are planning to do about this subject. Depending on their answers, I may well choose to cancel some memberships. Something I haven't actually thought about before reading this book - so I hope that many others will follow suit and choose action over complacency!
Rating: 5
Summary: Conservation's biggest failure exposed
Comment: Dale Peterson and Karl Ammann lay out the history of the commercial hunting of apes (and other species) that is driving chimps, gorillas, and bonobos rapidly towards extinction, and the direct link with the logging taking place within Central African forests. It's not surprising that logging companies don't give a hoot if our closest relatives are hunted to extinction, but what is shocking is Peterson's and Ammann's exposure of the inaction and lack of concern shown by major conservation groups, and the even more troubling partnerships between loggers and conservation groups that have enabled loggers to continue destroying the forests and the wildlife that live there. Anyone who cares about wildlife, great apes or otherwise, and donates to major conservation organizations must read this book before writing another check. Ammann, the photographer who has campaigned for nearly a decade to bring the bushmeat crisis to the world's attention, writes a compelling afterword, and provides disturbing photographs of murdered apes. My only complaints are that there were not more of Ammann's photographs included in the book, and that the indictments of major conservation groups were perhaps not scathing enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: look at the pictures
Comment: Everyone should check out this book to at least look at the pictures. They are quite moving, especially of the babies.
But people moved by these pictures should see similar pictures of chickens, cows, turkeys and pigs. These pictures are easy to find, and what happens to these apes happens to these other animals at billions of times greater frequency and for equally trivial reasons. And this is at the hands of Americans, not Africans, and mostly people who wouldn't dream of eating apes.
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Title: Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature by Craig B. Stanford ISBN: 046508172X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Chimpanzee Travels: On and Off the Road in Africa by Dale Peterson ISBN: 0820324892 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Gorillas: Natural History & Conservation (World Life Library.) by Kelly J. Stewart ISBN: 0896586243 Publisher: Voyageur Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life by Richard Ellis ISBN: 1559639741 Publisher: Shearwater Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen ISBN: 0393051404 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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