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BCTF identified two central collaborative goals when we formed in 1999:Establishing an information database regarding the activities and impacts of the African commercial bushmeat trade (ecological, economic, and social)Establishing mechanisms for information sharing among member organizations to increase collaboration and effectiveness of field program actions and ...
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Good information is the foundation of effective decision-making. BCTF works to collect and share information on bushmeat and wildlife trade with key decision makers in government, industry and NGOs. We are particularly interested in best practices, policies and solutions for mitigating wildlife trade. The Information Management and Analysis Project (IMAP) was created to be a central ...
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After several months of work, BCTF is pleased to unveil a new website, with a cleaner look, better navigation and more features. The site is built on a portal system managed by Conservation International, a supporting member and co-host of BCTF.The new site combines information previously distributed across three public interfaces: the main BCTF site, the Bushmeat Information ...
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Defenders of WildlifeBroken Screens is Defenders of Wildlife's major new report on the failures of the regulatory system for live, wild animal imports in the United States. Released on August 1, 2007, the report is an unprecedented examination of the low level of protection given by the lax U.S. system from the risks that non-native animal species pose to our environment and to ...
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Gabon is currently in the process of developing a framework for addressing bushmeat hunting and trade throughout the country. The first step in this process was a formulation workshop, held 3-7 December 2002 in Lopé National Park, and organized by the Ministry for Forestry Economics, Water and Fishing (MENEF), and the Manager of Environment and Nature conservation, with ...
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The Bushmeat Crisis Task Force has tracked information on illegal bushmeat imports into the USA for several years, and we have consistently shared that information with relevant government agencies and BCTF members. The US trade makes up less than an estimated 1% of the global bushmeat trade, but demonstrates a strong demand for this illegal meat. Recently, public information has appeared ...
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On 23 June 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, held a hearing on H.R. 2693, the Great Ape Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2005. BCTF helped several members prepare testimony for this hearing by providing great ape population statistics, threat maps, and evidence of decline among species and subspecies in Africa, as well ...
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(FAO) A West Africa Bushmeat Conference was held in Accra, Ghana from 22-24 February 2005, organized by FAO, the Ghana Wildlife Society, Conservation International-Ghana, and WWF International. As a result of the conference, a West Africa Bushmeat Network (WABN) was formed. Their website includes numerous documents of interest, including the proceedings of the ...
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April 23, 2008 - Apes are on the verge of extinction due to extreme poaching for bush meat and their global demand to be used for scientific research, but there are initiatives to save the endangered species. There are increasingly necessitated efforts to help protect the great endangered chimpanzees and gorillas that are likely to become extinct because of their increasing demand ...
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Theatrical presentations are an age-old means for passing on knowledge, but performance education is still effective today, even for conservation awareness. Here are a few efforts making use of this traditional art form to teach about bushmeat, in Africa and North America.Bushmeat Roving Theater Education at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo The ...
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As the bushmeat crisis continues to worsen, and as monkeys and great apes continue to suffer population declines, the primatology community needs increased capacity to address these problems. In June 2006, two special sessions on bushmeat were held in conjunction with the biannual congress of the International Primatological Society (IPS), in Entebbe, Uganda. This excellent opportunity ...
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The Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders (EWCL) program is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of International Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. It brings together twenty young conservationists with exceptional leadership potential for capacity building in campaign development and leadership skills. Participants ...
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On 15 September 2005, BCTF Program Coordinator Natalie Bailey presented "Tools for Tackling the Bushmeat Crisis: The Bushmeat IMAP and Collaboration for Conservation" at the AZA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. AZA President Beth Stevens opened this well-attended session, which highlighted BCTF's achievements to date and featured the Bushmeat IMAP.
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Well-managed wildlife trade has the potential to deliver significant development benefits for the world’s poor, finds a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, and WWF.Trading Nature: the contribution of wildlife trade management to ...
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The Allanblackia plant has now gained the prominence it deserves, as an economic tree with great potential to reduce poverty, particularly in rural communities where it occurs.It is one of the wild plant species, from whose seeds, oil is extracted by local communities for various purposes such as producing local soap and for cooking. But in the case of the latter, other nut oil ...
