Never has there been a greater need for conservation. We must stop the destruction of the wilderness, the indiscriminate chopping down of rainforest, the loss of habitat and the wanton killing of animals. We are destroying our planet.
One look at the interaction between this mother and her child is enough to show the intelligence and love. Yet these close relatives of ours are being destroyed with such cruelty! It has to stop!
The Civil Rights battle is won. Human Beings are all one species and equal before the law in most countries. All that remains is to enforce the law, remove the vestiges of racism and establish true equality. There are still battles to be fought but the war is won.
What hasn’t yet been won is Rights for Primates and other sentient animals.
The primates (Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Orangutangs, Gibbons and Bonobos) are our closest relatives. They are obviously intelligent, have advanced family structures and behaviour patterns and yet are still being treated like vermin. Their habitat is being destroyed by logging and they are being butchered for food, trinkets, medicine and to procure pets.
We need a world-wide Civil Rights movement for Primates. They are need to be afforded rights, protected and given land to live in undisturbed.
Another group of intelligent organisms are the whales, dolphins and porpoises. They have bigger and more complex brains than humans, a social structure, language and high intelligence yet they are still being barbarically gaffed and callously hacked and sawed to death in barbaric acts. They too need to be afforded rights as sentient beings and protected!
Now is the time to campaign for Animal Rights!!!
