article thumbnail

Primate Parts Still Being Used for "Medicinal Purposes"

Critter News

It's not just tiger parts and elephant tusks that are being used for so called "traditional" medicinal uses. I didn't know primates were in demand too. Tags: traditional medicine poaching primates endangered species. I knew about bush meat, but not about this. Will it ever end?

Primates 100
article thumbnail

Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

10,000 Birds

Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates.