#GRASP warns illegal ape trade remains active:
A total of 38 great apes have been confiscated thus far in 2014, an average of 1.8 per week, according to records from sanctuaries and rehabilitation centres in Africa and Asia. That figure is double the average for all of 2013 (0.9 per week), when GRASP published the report, Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos and Orangutans.
The United Nations officially recognized the illegal wildlife trade as “serious crime” in 2013, and the Illegal Trade in Wildlife will be a major theme of the 1st United Nations Environment Assembly #UNEA that will be held 23-27 June in Nairobi, Kenya
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