1 Tahrcountry Musings: Cameroon trying to get back smuggled Apes from South Africa Zoo

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Cameroon trying to get back smuggled Apes from South Africa Zoo

Cameroon is negotiating the return of four endangered Western Lowland gorillas,
smuggled via Malaysia to a South African zoo. The primate is classified as endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The gorillas were smuggled via Nigeria to Malaysia's Taipeng Zoo in July 2002, then shipped to South Africa's Pretoria National Zoological Gardens two years later. South Africa is bound by CITES, to return smuggled animals to their country of origin

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