Jabruson / Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) severed and smoked hands and feet. Smoking is the usual method used for preserving forest meat, allowing suppliers enough time to get produce to market for sale as 'b...

Karl Ammann / Waste timber, Central African rainforest. On average, less than half of the wood cut is used.

Karl Ammann / Baby Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla g gorilla), victim of the illegal bushmeat and pet trades, Central Africa. After shooting an adult gorilla, bushmeat hunters capture the babies for additional pro...

Karl Ammann / Baby Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla g gorilla) head portrait - victim of the illegal bushmeat and pet trade, Pointe Nior, Democratic Republic of Congo. After shooting an adult gorilla, bushmeat hunt...

Karl Ammann / Tropical rainforest timber transported on logging trucks to the local seaport. Drivers are paid per trip and therefore have an incentive to ignore traffic and safety rules.

Karl Ammann / Male mandrill portrait (Mandrillus sphinx), Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Moustached monkey portrait (Cercopithecus cephus), Central Africa.

Rod Williams / Congo peafowl (Afro congensis) male animal, captive occurs in the Congo Basin.

Nature Production / Elephantfish (Campylomormyrus tshokwe) native to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola

Roland Seitre / L'Hoest's guenon (Cercopithecus lhoesti) captive, occurs in the Congo Basin. Vulnerable species.

Roland Seitre / Allen's swamp monkey (Allenopithecus nigroviridis) on rocks above river, captive, occurs in the Congo Basin.

Ernie Janes / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) captive, portrait, occurs in the Congo Basin. Leaves digitally added.

Ernie Janes / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) captive, portrait, occurs in the Congo Basin. Leaves digitally added.

Ernie Janes / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) captive, portrait, occurs in the Congo Basin. Leaves digitally added.

Ernie Janes / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) captive, portrait, occurs in the Congo Basin. Leaves digitally added.

LYNN M. STONE / Wolf's Gueonon Monkey (Cercopithecus pogonias wolfi) captive, from Congo, Rwanda, Uganda. Non-exclusive.

LYNN M. STONE / Wolf's Gueonon Monkey (Cercopithecus pogonias wolfi) against a black background, captive from Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Non-ex

Jabruson / African rainforest penetration and associated pressures. People on truck with water containers. Influx of humans exerts pressure on wildlife and natural resources outside and within protected areas th...

Jabruson / African rainforest penetration and associated pressures. People on truck with water containers. Influx of humans exerts pressure on wildlife and natural resources outside and within protected areas th...

Jabruson / Grey cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) captive youngster about to be picked up by gloved hand, to be taken indoors for the night. It's mother was shot by hunters so now this animal is kept as a p...

Jabruson / Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) severed and smoked hands and feet with forest butterfly (Nymphalidae) on top. Smoking is the usual method used for preserving forest meat, allowing suppliers enough t...

Rod Williams / Crowned Guenon (Cercopithecus pogonias), juvenile, Captive, occurs South Cameroon to Congo Basin, Africa.

Karl Ammann / Train carrying huge rainforest logs to seaport, Cameroon, Central Africa. Bushmeat travels alongside timber and is distributed nationally and internationally. Due to poor law enforcement, governments...

Karl Ammann / Women at logging camp with butchered chimpanzee carcasses, Central Africa. The meat will be transported via logging trucks into towns and cities where it will be sold at a premium.

Karl Ammann / Logging tractor removing felled timber from extraction zone. The collateral damage from this process includes destruction of the understorey, saplings and smaller trees in the tropical rainforest.

Karl Ammann / Potto (Perodicticus potto) hidden among vegetation, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) in Central African zoo. Chimps orphaned by the bushmeat trade are sold as pets and often kept in deplorable conditions as they grow older and become difficult to c...

Karl Ammann / Bushmeat being transported by timber ferry to the ports and cities of West and Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Hunter removing snare victim (duiker?) for sale as bushmeat, Central Africa. Snaring is indiscriminate, killing endangered as well as common species. Many victims are lost to scavengers, insects or ro...

Karl Ammann / Logging town, Central Africa tropical rainforest. Traditional people are attracted to the temporary boom economy, thus destroying sustainable ways of life.

Karl Ammann / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) mother and baby, Democratic republic of Congo, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Orphaned baby chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) kept as a pet, Central Africa. Chimpanzees have become a status symbol in some parts of Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Hunters tie up alongside a river steamer to sell their bushmeat (sitatunga?), Congo River, Central Africa. Bushmeat trade occurs in tandem with the logging industry and is shipped alongside timber on...

Karl Ammann / Logging road in Central African rainforest. Roads progress two kilometers a day into previously remote areas of forest, exposing wildlife and indigenous people to a corrupt and greedy industry.

Karl Ammann / Bushmeat (Artiodactylan species) being smoked for preservation before transport to urban market, Central Africa. Trading in bushmeat is usually the woman's domain.

Karl Ammann / Refugee camp in Democratic Republic of Congo after the genocide in Rwanda.

Karl Ammann / Pet baby chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) clinging to owner's leg, Central Africa. Chimpanzees have become a status symbol in some regions of Africa.

Karl Ammann / Huge logs prepared for export from Central Africa. Government officials employed to mitigate the impacts of logging depend on timber companies for housing and basic services and this conflict of inte...

Karl Ammann / Ba'ka pygmy in Cameroon, West Africa being tested for Ebola virus after eating infected gorilla meat. Close genetic correlation between humans and apes means that many of the same viruses and parasite...

Karl Ammann / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) meat for sale in shop, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Dead gorilla baby (Gorilla g gorilla), victim of the illegal bushmeat and pet trades, Central Africa. Nearly all gorilla orphans enetering the pet trade die from dehydration, disease and grief.

Karl Ammann / Ba'Aka pygmy child with empty plate, South East Cameroon. Once provided with extra meat for trade with their Bantu neighbours, today many of the pygmies' hunting grounds are empty - the result of incr...

Karl Ammann / The Waregia tribe doing their daily washing on the rapids outside Kisangane, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Karl Ammann / Female mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) hunted for bushmeat, Central Africa. Mandrills travel in social groups, making it easy for hunters to kill entire troops.

Karl Ammann / Loggers at freshly cut tree stump, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Children playing among felled timber logs, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Bonobo orphans (Pan paniscus) at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, Democratic Republic of Congo. Several ape santuaries exist throughout Africa but most are full and cannot accept newcomers.

Karl Ammann / Hunter using bow and arrow, wearing leopard mask, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The masks stimulate alarm calls from primates, helping to pinpoint their location so they can be shot with p...

Karl Ammann / Mist over rainforest at Wong Wongue Presidential Reserve, Gabon, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Logger with chainsaw in clear-cut rainforest, Central Africa. Local communities suffer from the loss of their natural heritage, yet they are often employed as labourers, thereby damaging their own pro...

Karl Ammann / Timber company employee with Hornbill he has hunted for bushmeat, Central Africa. Wildlife represents a marketable asset and a supplement to low incomes.

Karl Ammann / Bushmeat price list displayed by trader, South East Cameroon, West Africa. Logging company employees are common clients for traders and unless timber companies provide subsidized domestic alternatives...

Karl Ammann / Bushmeat (unidentified) being confiscated from a commercial hunter, Central Africa. The meat is smoked for preservation and smuggled illegally from forests to urban centres in logging trucks.

Karl Ammann / Dead Male mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in shopping basket, hunted and sold for bush meat, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Ba'Aka pygmy carrying the head of a gorilla killed for bushmeat, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / White nosed geunon (Cercopithecus nictitans), Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Chained, captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) smoking a cigarette. Luna Park holiday resort, Yaounde, Cameroon.

Karl Ammann / Hunter with brush-tailed porcupine, North Gabon, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Olive baboon (Papio anubis) killed by hunter for bushmeat, Central Africa. Traditional subsistence hunters take only what meat they can physically carry but modern hunting techniques (guns, snaring) a...

Karl Ammann / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) in dereclict city zoo, Central Africa. Chimps orphaned by the bushmeat trade are sold as pets and often kept in deplorable conditions as they grow older and become difficu...

Karl Ammann / Bushmeat and timber being loaded onto a train for transport to the ports and cities of West and Central Africa. Commercial hunting is an illegal yet lucrative activity made possible by poor law enforc...

Karl Ammann / Head of African elephant (Loxodonta africana), killed for bushmeat, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Loggers and bushmeat hunters travel in lorry together to the tip of access roads to cut trees and hunt wildlife, Central Africa tropical raingorest.

Karl Ammann / Orphaned pet chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) with owner, Central Africa. Chimpanzees have become a status symbol in some parts of Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Makeshift huts of travelling bushmeat traders tied to floating timber raft. Bushmeat trade occurs in tandem with the logging industry and is shipped alongside timber on log floats, river ferries, trai...

Karl Ammann / Aerial view of logging camp, Gabon, Central Africa. Camps attract hunters, who sell bushmeat to the local workforce and clear-cut large forest sreas for slash and burn farming. Logging vehicles are al...

Karl Ammann / Western lowland gorilla family {Gorilla g. gorilla), shot for bushmeat, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Ba'Aka pygmy mother and child, Ca,eroon, West Africa. The invasion of traditional forest refuges by logging companies and commercial bushmeat hunters jeopardises the lives of traditional forest-dwelle...

Karl Ammann / Orphaned pet chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) with owner, Central Africa. Pet chimpanzees have become a status symbol in some parts of Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Overturned logging truck on wet road, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Logger felling massive tree for timber trade in Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Indigenous Bantu child on cut tree stump, South East Cameroon, West Africa. The quest for quick profit has turned Africa's equatorial rainforests into a private economic resource for the rich and powe...

Karl Ammann / Aerial view of clearing and logging operations in tropical rainforest, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / White nosed guenon monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) hunted for bushmeat, Central Africa. Modern hunting techniques mean that entire troops of primates can be wiped out in a matter of hours.

Karl Ammann / Hunter and his family, displaying skulls of gorillas he has shot, Cameroon, West Africa.

Karl Ammann / Logging in tropical rainforest, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / White nosed guenon hunted with rifle for bushmeat, South east Cameroon, Central Africa. Firearms have been ubiquitous in forests since colonial times and have greatly improved hunting success, particu...

Karl Ammann / Baka pybmies doing traditional Djenge dance, North East Gabon, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Male Mandrill head portrait (Mandrillus sphinx). Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Bushmeat hunters in forest previously cut for timber, South East Cameroon, West Africa. The logging industry gives access to commercial hunting business and exploits prisitne resources of previously r...

Karl Ammann / Baby Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla g gorilla) - victim of the illegal bushmeat and pet trades - with smuggled ivory, Central Africa. After shooting an adult gorilla, bushmeat hunters capture the ba...

Karl Ammann / Ba'Aka pygmies carrying food to village along timber track. Logging roads, built to exploit remote forest areas, displace indigenous communities from their traditional forest lands and grant access t...

Karl Ammann / Three young bonobos grooming (Pan pansicus) in sanctuary, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Bushmeat for sale in urban market, Central Africa. Wild meat, often from endangered species, is sold in every city throughout West and Central Africa often at higher prices than domestic meat. Commerc...

Karl Ammann / Aerial view of timber being transported by river to local seaport, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Family watch as crocodile lies tied and helpless ready for the market, for sale as bushmeat, Central Africa. Crocodiles are transported alive, often for weeks without food or water, and sold fresh in...

Karl Ammann / Chimpanzee orphans (Pan troglodytes) in Conkouati sanctuary run by HELP-Congo, Congo Brazaville. Several ape sanctuaries exist throughout Africa but most are full and cannot accept newcomers.

Karl Ammann / Grey cheeked mangabey (Cercocebus albigena), Central African rainforest.

Karl Ammann / Hunter with two moustached monkeys (Cercopithecus cephus) on bicycle, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Logging truck loaded with timber on road through tropical rainforest, Central Africa. Overloaded trucks put strain on national road maintenance budgets, requiring subsidizing of logging with donor fun...

Karl Ammann / Hunter smoking gorilla meat for transportation to market, Central Africa. The intestines and organs are consumed at camp.

Karl Ammann / Captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) in Central African zoo. Chimps orphaned by the bushmeat trade are sold as pets and often kept in deplorable conditions as they grow older and become difficult to c...

Karl Ammann / Moustached monkey (Cercopithecus cephus), Central Africa.