The nine-ball Chevrotine cartridge is used to kill gorillas. Despite the fact that this particular cartridge is only used to kill protected species, it was widely available until earlier this year. Campaigning as an Advisory Director of the World Society for the Protection of Animals, Ammann managed to gain the support of the European Parliament. The result was a two-year moratorium on production of the Chevrotine. Because logging companies frequently fail to supply their workers with food, loggers represent a captive market for hunters and bush meat traders.
Meat arrives in the logging towns on the back of logging lorries.
It is then redistributed by traders. In the Cameroon, tons of it also end up on the daily train service from the interior to the towns of Yaounde and Douala. Gorilla orphans do not usually survive. They simply seem to give up. Chimpanzee babies apparently have a greater will to live.