Bonobos are Endangered!!! Gasp!

         It was a dark and stormy night...
         A boy, sitting in his room, was typing away furiously at the computer. What is on his computer, is what you are seeing now. It is a blog about bonobos. 
         I know, that was disappointing!!! But what do you expect?The title of this blog, after all,  is "Protecting Bonobos” ! But anyway, today, I'm going to talk about why bonobos are endangered. Maybe you already know, because you read my last blog. If you don't know, well, read my last blog. But any ways, if you want to learn more, keep on reading. 

1,deforestation:

 

The Congo basin is 300,000 square miles (777,000 square kilometres) in size. Which means there are LOTS of trees. Just think of things you could do with trees.You can make telephone books, food labels, benches, toilet paper( imagine a world without that ), ping-pong balls, milk cartons, movie tickets, pencils, etc. Which is why the Congo basin loses 65600 hectares of rainforest every year. The Congo basin is the bonobos' only habitat, and as a result bonobos are decreasing too, and they're becoming more and more hard to find.

2, Bush meat trade:

    I know, the photo above is steak. But bush meat photos are so gruesome that I rated them "G". Bush meat, means well, meat from bushes, or meat from wild animals. Bush meat trade is made popular for quite a few reason. People buy bush meat because it's cheaper than pork, beef, or chicken. On the contrary, rich people eat bush meat because they think it is a sign of status. You get the point. Rich people eat them. Poor people eat them. Who doesn't eat them?

   3,Conflict in Congo
   It's the biggest and baddest reason of all, guys. It's conflict in Congo. As you all know, (or some of you don't) Congo does not offer you 5 star hotels and Disneyland, but instead, you get rifles pointed at you because think you're the enemy. The biggest conflict that happened after WWII was there, and you do not want to go there. But the bonobos live there. And what choice do they have? So while RPGs destroy guerrilla forces, they kill bonobos too. And bonobos look like humans, so some people go like:
"What's that?'
"It's the enemy! *Gasp*"
"Dude! You have a gun! Don't just stand there! Shoot!"
(POW) ( 1 guy goes up and investigates.)
" It's only a monkey. We freaked out"
Another one of the 50,000 bonobos died.

     Well, if you liked this post, too bad! There's no more. Stay tuned for my next post, guys, which is about me visiting the only bonobo sanctuary in the world.  ©2013, Yale Wang