Smartphones have also revolutionized the pet trade. Instead, Stanford said, they’re given guns to hunt for their food and in turn, they end up eating endangered gorillas and chimps. It’s not the mining itself that’s destructive, he said, but rather, the culture around it. “They mine it in rivers, kind of like the way they mined gold in California – very low tech,” said Stanford, a biologist who spent years researching alongside primatologist Jane Goodall and is the author of Planet Without Apes and most recently The New Chimpanzee. Eighty percent of the world’s supply is found in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, “the last stronghold of the eastern lowland gorilla,” Stanford said, chair of the anthropology department at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. There’s an item in your pocket that is killing gorillas: the smartphone.Ĭoltan is an ore found in all sorts of everyday items, such as phones and Playstation consoles. Here are four unlikely things that could lead to never seeing great apes again. To do that, they must understand the threats they face.
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USC researchers, such as primate expert Craig Stanford, aim to understand how to better protect these animals. What’s more, apes are the only animals to share 99 percent of their DNA with humans.
It’s possible that 100 years from now, species such as orangutans will be wiped off the planet entirely. All great apes are considered severely endangered.
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