They end up frightening their owners and then end up on someone's plate It's double jeopardy.". The raid highlights the magnitude of the worldwide trade in chimpanzees, mankind's closest relatives.They are classified as a highly endangered species by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) and there are believed to be only 200,000 remaining in the world. They can only be transported for very specific reasons, but 32,000 primates annually are still bought and sold on the international market. One third go to America to be kept in zoos or used in laboratory research, where they are used to research infectious diseases such as HIV/Aids and hepatitis.

Conservationists estimate that at least a quarter of the trade worldwide is illegal and that as many as eight chimpanzees are killed for every one exported alive.Interpol, the international police agency, estimates that illegal wildlife trade is worth $5bn a year, second only to drugs in the worldwide black market. Customs officials at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi know to listen out for whimpers coming from crates that pass through the customs hall. As a transport hub for East Africa, animals flown illegally from one part of the world to another frequently pass through here. They probably saw their mother killed in front of them," said Richard Obanda, a senior official at Kenya Wildlife Services,

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which has taken charge of the animals."When we found them, they were starving, and some had started eating their own faeces." The chimpanzees have a black market value of around $20,000 (£10,500) each, and Kenya Wildlife Services said it believed the animals were being taken to Nigeria from Egypt. Had the boats been in the open sea, they would have ridden over the swells; but one third of the fleet was destroyed, and half the engines were wrecked.Nets and motors under repair are strewn on every flat surface, and great scrap heaps of salvage line the highway through the jungles to the Khao Lak resorts, where thousands of foreign tourists were swept away.At the disaster victim identification centre in Phuket, where 500 forensic experts are still cataloguing thousands of foreign cadavers before they can be flown home, Mr Clinton and Mr Bush laid a wreath for American victims just before sunset. They walked along a flag-festooned wall that commemorates 37 nations which all lost citizens to the waves on Thailand's Andaman coast.Near the American flag, someone placed a sticker from New York Fire Department engine 217, under which was scrawled: "We all work to bring you home." Officials at the site pointed out that it took 18 months before identification for the victims at the World Trade Center was finished, and that it would be many months before the bodies could be returned Some will never be found.. "I was struck by the staggering scale of the loss," Mr Clinton told a rapt crowd.

"We hope to learn some more about what else we can do."Splintered trawlers are left stranded in the silt beside the village's few remaining original structures. The villagers asked for them to be left there as a reminder of the sea's fury. The tsunami hit on the morning after a full moon, when most of the fishing fleet was in the harbour. The current president and he don't always see eye to eye on issues.