It's closer to true than you think. The fall of tribal traditions. Antelope, elephant, wild pigs and, most worrisome to ecologists, primates, which breed too slowly to replenish their ranks. In the heart of the African continent, tribes like the Baka pygmies have been hunting for eons, but their small villages only nibbled at the forest's bounty. Increasingly, the native hunters are abandoning their snares to join into the more lucrative commercial hunt.
Poachers can wipe out entire social groups of primates in single burst of automatic gunfire.
If the infants are not killed, they are then captured for the illegal pet trade or even wind up in cramped orphanages, excluded from the natural gene pool. Westerners admit they were dazed by how swiftly the hunt has spread. We don't have time for each group to try its own project. We need an unprecedented collaborative effort. Pay hunters not to pull the trigger.