APES FACING NEW THREAT OF EXTINCTION.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Man's closest genetic relative, the ape, is facing pressures that could drive it into extinction in the wild, the World Wildlife Fund warned Thursday. Driven from their natural habitats, hunted for their meat, poached poach 1 tr.v. poached, poach·ing, poach·es To cook in a boiling or simmering liquid: Poach the fish in wine. as trophies and listed as the plat A map of a town or a section of land that has been subdivided into lots showing the location and boundaries of individual parcels with the streets, alleys, easements, and rights of use over the land of another. du jour in fancy Paris restaurants, the world's great apes have been fighting a losing battle in recent years. While there are still tens of thousands of great apes left - from chimpanzees to orangutans to gorillas - their numbers have dropped precipitously. The wildlife group warned that the ape could end up extinct, but did not estimate when that could happen. The latest threat comes in the form of war. ``The most endangered of all these apes is the mountain gorilla, whose last stronghold is the troubled - sometimes war-torn - zone along the frontiers of Rwanda, Zaire and Uganda,'' said Elizabeth Kemp, species policy information officer for WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. International. ``Civil unrest has put the gorilla and chimpanzee chimpanzee, an ape, genus Pan, of the equatorial forests of central and W Africa. The common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, lives N of the Congo River. Full-grown animals of this species are up to 5 ft (1. in great peril,'' she noted. |
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