Great Apes in Danger

Bushmeat is meat derived from wildlife in Africa, including animals like elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, and others. Often illegal methods of hunting, like wire snares, are used, and the animals being hunted might be endangered, threatened, or protected. Bushmeat has become a crisis because it is rapidly expanding, largely due to an increase in commercial logging in forested areas. The logging creates a system of roads and trucks that connects the forests and hunters to the cities and consumers.

If you live in Toronto and want to learn more about the bushmeat trade and what you can do to help, check out the photography exhibit at The Gladstone Gallery located at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, between September 22 and Sept 28.  The exhibit is presented by the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada and We Animals, featuring photographs by Jo-Anne McArthur.   The photos document a snare-removal project in the Uganda forest, as well as primates rescued from the bushmeat trade as well as from the entertainment and research industries.