The Wrongful Act of Trafficking Primates Many researchers over the course of 6 years have continued to look into the trafficking of primates and many other animals that have been abducted from their habitats to be sold for food or kept alive in someone's home. Imagine if you were taken from your home and placed in a completely different world where you were caged instead of roaming free. There have been many recent accounts made of newly discovered information regarding these monkeys and apes that are being smuggled, beaten, and drugged. There have been may efforts to prevent this trafficking, but as long as we are aware of what is going on there needs to be a bigger push to stop this kind of danger for not just primates, all animals. "Ape Trade" is found commonly in the Conogese rain forest, but I dose not just stop there. In "Smuggled, Beaten and Drugged: The Illicit Global Ape Trade" by Jeffery Gettlemen, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for international reporting, is The Times's South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi, he states that " Ape trafficking is a little-known corner of the illicit wildlife trade, a global criminal enterprise that hauls in billions of dollars." (9) Many countries have checkpoints for these …show more content…
Most are commonly found living deep in the rainforest. The Congo River has become one of the last bonobo refuges and a common source of many trafficked apes. Many of these bonobos are hunted, but they are very smart animals when it comes to traps. When their foot gets stuck instead of yelling, which signals the hunter, they stay calm and untangle their foot to escape quietly, as if they were never there to begin with. According to Jef Dupain, an ape specialist for the African Wildlife Foundation, "They (bonobos) have consciousness, empathy and understanding. One day we will wonder how did we ever come up with the idea to keep them in