Max at Sweetwaters. Captured as an infant in Burundi in 1988 and held by a French film crew before being rescued, he still reacts to the sound of small planes overhead — a memory, his caregivers believe, of the country's civil war. Photo by Jaclynn Ashly.

The chimpanzees paying the price in the global wildlife trade

The illicit great ape trade operates within the same forces destabilizing chimpanzee habitats: armed conflict, extractive industries that carve roads into once-remote forests, and the poverty they produce.

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