Well now I'm depressed...

[uberreiniger]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_eu/endangered_gorillas

I love how everything that happens on the African continent gets ignored by the Western world. Until it's too damn late.

Comments

[germsama.livejournal.com]

Wow... that's. Really depressing. Imagine a world without gorillas. D: I hope some serious consideration toward this matter. People are getting way too wrapped up in menial things and really aren't given a second thought to what we're doing to our planet and the other animals we share it with.

[chade66.livejournal.com]

Huh, I knew about this a long time ago, but then, being a primatologist was something I considered doing at the time.

Truth of the matter is, extinction is the rule, survival is the anomaly. 90% of the species that ever walked the earth are already extinct. Probably a good thing in some ways, I don't think I would want to dodge a triceratops on my way to work!

[rob-rants.livejournal.com]

Well in the BIG picture, we are just another animal that uses up resources other animals need to survive. It's not pretty or right, but it's the truth. But you can't blame it all on the western world, quite often we try to save species, but the 3rd world countries and peoples of the world are often ignoring whats going on and slaughtering these creatures (which ever they may be) for profit. Whether it is powdered rhino horn, ivory, or bears gall bladder. There is always a profit to be made in 3rd world killing animals to sell parts to other 3rd word.