Fwd: Daily Grist: THE CONGO PROTECTS THE BONOBOS

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Cherdust2002

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Re: Daily Grist: THE CONGO PROTECTS THE BONOBOS

 

oAt 08:01 AM 11/21/07, you wrote:

They Tried to Make Me Go to a

Reserve, I Said Bonobo

Congo nature preserve set up to protect bonobos

A swath of Congo rainforest larger than the state of Massachusetts will

be designated as a nature reserve in a collaborative effort between

American and Congolese environmental groups and agencies. Advocates hope

the reserve will be a significant step toward protecting the endangered

bonobo, one of humans' closest ape relations. Bonobos, which live only in

the Congo, are often targeted by poachers. They are also the only

primates other than humans known to have sex not just for procreation,

but for pleasure. And if that's not worth preserving, we don't know what

is.

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sources: The New York Times, Mongabay

see also, in Grist: Saving bonobos with sex

 

 

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