14 DAY TRIAL // Most studies having to do with the need to protect biodiversity focus on animals such as elephants and rhinos, whose survival as a species is now threatened by the practice of hunting them for their tusks or for their horns.
However, a new report made available to the public by the United Nations says that our planet's great apes aren't exactly having the time of their lives either.
Thus, it is believed that a whopping 3,000 such animals are either killed or captured on a yearly basis.
By the looks of it, those who engage in such activities more often than not target chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, Tree Hugger explains.
As the UN argues, this phenomenon is likely to soon lead to these species' becoming extinct.
In case anyone was wondering, the captured great apes are either sold as pets, or made to entertain tourists in various regions. Some of them get shipped to zoos worldwide, yet this does not happen all that often.