This chimpanzee is being held in a dark tight area with very
sparce lighting, food or water.


Niels Marquardt, the U.S. Ambassador for the Republics of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, spent the  weekend with his wife and two daughters and 38 chimpanzees in the remote Mbargue forest in eastern Cameroon - a 200 mile drive from the capital city, Yaoundé, where the Embassy is located. The ambassador and his family were the guests of In Defense of Animals-Africa (IDA-Africa), a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the last of Cameroon’s wild chimpanzees through education and conservation. The commercial bushmeat trade is an international multibillion dollar black market that buys and sells meat from the forests, much of which derives from endangered and protected species.

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