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Ten tonnes of African bushmeat may be reaching London every day, according to a British film on the trade. It says the extent of the killing has already left some countries with few animals to poach.The effort to save the great apes, it says, now stands at one second to midnight. Yet corruption, inertia and sheer poverty allow all-out, unsustainable slaughter to continue apace. The film, No Hiding Place, made by Television Trust for the Environment (TVE), is shown in its Earth Report series on BBC World.