Zoo attendance is up. The economy is growing. Unemployment and crime are dropping. War and civil unrest appear to be things of the past. But where the wild things are, crisis prevails.
Fires decimate the orangutan and their habitat in Borneo and Sumatra.
Gibbons are beseiged across their range in Asia. Refugees, militias, and profiteers are butchering gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos in the Congo Basin. In this Symposium, three distinguished teachers and humane advocates will address these contradictions and guide audience discussion of ironies and remedies in the conflicts of our age. These questions will be treated as more than philosophical. Practical answers will be explored in the context of our search for ways and means to know and preserve the apes in their homelands.