CSI on CBS; What CSI Couldn't SHow

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WHAT CSI DIDN'T SHOW

CSI shows gruesome dead people, and had full access to our slides and video, but chose not to show the real picture of gorilla slaughter -- they could have. We believe these images need to be seen so the North American public will be motivated to help the concerned people of Africa to stop the killing of apes and other endangered animals for bushmeat.
Gorillas killed in the forests are skinned and butchered for the bushmeat trade.
Gorilla hands are severed and served as a delicacy or set out as a trophy.
A gorilla head is soup for some; souvenir for others.

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The discovery of a decapitated gorilla torso in the African rain forest is nothing new for photographer and conservation activist Karl Ammann. His mission over the past decade has been to document the plight of the apes, and their most urgent threat - the bushmeat trade.
Yes, every day in equatorial Africa gorillas are slaughtered for the bushmeat trade. Thousands each year. This is a small part of a billion dollar bushmeat business in the Congo Basin which grows with the spreading of roads, timber and mining towns, and militia and refugee camps into once pristine rain forests. Everything from apes and elephants to antelope, monkeys, and porcupine is fair game in this popular commerce.
Yes, it is illegal to hunt and sell endangered animals -- the apes and many other species are all protected. But in countries where life is hard and money and alternatives are scarce, people make a living however they can. If someone is willing to pay three times the price of beef or chicken to serve gorilla or chimpanzee steak at a feast in the city, there will be one less ape in the forest.
We are striving to help the people of Africa save the apes and other endangered wildlife. Next week Dr. Anthony Rose, founder of the Bushmeat Project and director of the Wildlife Protectors Fund, will be in Washington DC at a global conference on the bushmeat crisis. On May 22 he flies to Africa to work with local partners on bushmeat education and gorilla protection projects which he helped initiate. These efforts are just the tip of a giant iceberg of intervention that must come fast, or the apes will be gone.
The producers of C.S.I. thanked Dr. Rose for his advice with a generous donation. We welcome anything you can give -- money, ideas, encouragement, endowments, assistance in the development of new programs to stop the slaughter. Let your leaders and friends know that we want to save the apes from extinction.
We still believe poachers can be converted to protectors. Help us make it happen.
Make a tax-exempt donation to the Wildlife Protectors Fund.
Offer your ideas and support to Dr. Anthony Rose at rose@gorilla.org.

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