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Establishing protected areas and promoting better wildlife management in and around them is a key part of addressing the bushmeat crisis. The 2003 IUCN 5th World Congress on Protected Areas, or World Parks Congress (WPC), taking place in Durban, South Africa from 8-17 September, will spotlight the urgent need for new protected areas (PAs) as well as better management of existing ones. 2,500 ...
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by Dr. Janette Wallis, BCTF Steering Committee(Content in text boxes adapted from information provided by John Fa and Lise Albrechtsen, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)In the fall of 2003, I had the unique opportunity to live and work on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (E.G.), Africa, as part of Arcadia ...
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The European Commission has launched a Report and an Internet site aimed at providing information for the protection of biodiversity in Africa.In a communiqué released in Brussels, the European Executive said the website would be based on the latest breakthroughs in satellite technologies designed to slow down the decline ...
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Dr. Rebecca Hardin (BCTF SC) represented BCTF at the workshop “Biodiversity and the Oil and Gas Industry: Central and West Africa" in Luanda, Angola. MORE...
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by Andrew Tobiason, BCTFFor more than 20 years, international conservation groups have worked with counterparts in local communities and governments to save wildlife in Central Africa. Poverty, corruption, AIDS and war plague the region, and arguments for protecting wild animals and places are usually secondary to hunger relief and economic development. Meanwhile, ...
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Environmentalists say the hunting and trade of endangered animals from the world's tropical forests must be reduced if rare primates and other species are to be saved from extinction.Some campaigners want a total ban on bushmeat or at least on its commercial trade. This would allow local people to hunt only fast-breeding, non-endangered species to feed their families.But a ...
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This report by Katherine Scholfield, Newcastle University, and Dan Brockington, University of Manchester, examines the geography of activities by about 280 conservation NGOs working in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors looked at where NGOs work, where they are based, what protected areas they cover, how much money they get and where they spend it. They also examine the challenges of ...
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Africa is suffering deforestation at twice the world rate and the continent's few glaciers are shrinking fast, according to a UN atlas on Tuesday.Satellite pictures, often taken three decades apart, showed expanding cities, pollution, deforestation and climate change were damaging the African environment despite glimmers of improvement in some areas. "Africa is losing more ...
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Over the period 5-9 September 2005, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN-convened Intergovernmental Meeting on Great Apes exchanged information, agreed on action-oriented commitments to ensure the long-term survival of the four great apes and their habitat, and adopted key documents, including the Kinshasa Declaration.
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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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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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On Wednesday, the Spanish Parliament called on Spain to protect the great ape’s right to life and freedom. Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Ape Project called it an “historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades.” The Project works to remove the great ape “from the category of mere ...
