Needlenose

Checkout this disheartening news regarding the scale of the consumption of gorillas in the bushmeat trade. The article is based on a survey of a particular market and the local area from whence the gorillas are killed.  In that area things are pretty grim:

“According to interviews and field surveys, we think we may have about 200 gorillas left in the area,” says Mr Fidenci.

“But we estimate that 4% of the population is being killed each month, or 50% in a year. It is a lot.”

They figure beyond this one area, there are ~100K Western Lowland gorillas total in a wild, and they’ll be extinct within the decade given the bushmeat trade.

I don’t know if we’d have done a better job killing them off if we actually planned their extermination.