Conservationists warn great apes face extinction
5th Sep 2005, 18:07 GMT
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Poaching, logging and disease will soon wipe out the last of the world's great apes unless new strategies are devised to save humankind's closest relatives, conservationists said on Monday.
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