Why is the common chimpanzee endangered?

Answer 1

1) They're hunted for human consumption and sold as a type of "bush meat."

2) Logging and mining are reducing their habitat, and the logging roads are making it easier for people to hunt them.

Chimpanzees are endangered because of habitat loss and fragmentation( cutting off habitats from each other), and also the bushmeat trade.

The bushmeat trade is the hunting of wild animals for meat. It has become increasingly commercialised, it has its roots all over the world. This is because access to the jungle has become easier because logging and mining companies are creating roads that the hunters use.

The infants are captured after their mothers are shot to be sold to labs, circuses, or zoos, or as pets. Sometimes the infant is simply an added bonus to the mothers meat. Sometimes they are specifically targeted, and their mothers killed to take them, along with any of their family who try to save them.

The biggest way to help chimps is to not eat bushmeat, or recycle cell phones to help reduce mining, buy paper with the FSC label, do not buy pet chimps, do not watch movies with chimps in them, and spread the word about the plight of the chimps.

Also, the sanctuaries that care for the orphaned babies are always starved of funding and can always use a donation. A good organization to donate to is the Jane Goodall Institute.

Answer 2

The simple answer is the human race. Human activities are depriving the Chimps of much needed food-rich territory. In addition, many are taken to be sold for pets or medical test subjects. People also hunt them for "bush meat." There are several international organizations working to save them from such troubles.

I would like to add to the answer above that not only are chimps taken as pets, entertainers, or biomedical subjects, but their families are killed in the capture.

Answer 3

People logging trees and destroy their inhabitence, people killing them for their fur

Answer 4

Poachers keep killing them, and their habitat is being destroyed, by cutting down the trees that they live in.

Answer 5

The common chimpanzee is endangered because of: . Poaching . Habitat destruction . Human like diseases

Answer 6

we the people are will distroy there homes with are factorys that could produse gas that might kill of the chimps so it is us that kill them all us

Answer 7

They are in an evolutionary family that is known for being dangerous. The most dangerous animal in that family is Homo sapiens.