AR-News: (ZA) Chimps' Days May Be Numbered

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JOHANNESBURG -- Humanity's closest relative the chimpanzee could be
extinct in around 50 years because it is hunted for meat and threatened
by deforestation and disease, researchers said on Tuesday.

Only 8,000 remain of the most vulnerable chimpanzee subspecies, the Pan
troglodytes vellerosus, which is found predominantly in Nigeria, and it
could be extinct in two decades, according to a study. 

The study was presented at a conference of The Pan African Sanctuaries
Alliance in Johannesburg. PASA sanctuaries care for orphaned or injured
great apes.

full story:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63766,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8

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