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(Working Paper #23, Wildlife Conservation Society)This paper examines the viability and conservation role of wildlife farming in tropical forest countries. Farming of wildlife species for their meat is often suggested as a way to provide protein and income to people that are engaged in the illegal, commercial bushmeat trade. The authors analyze biological, economic, law ...
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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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Earlier this week, the US district court in Minnesota charged Pa Lor and Tia Lee Yang of selling products made from rare animals, such as elephants, leopards, leaf monkeys and weasels. Local Fish and Wildlife Service agent Patrick Lund told the Associated Press that his organisation had become increasingly concerned "about international trade in raw endangered wildlife ...
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by Natalie Bailey, BCTFIn Africa and around the world, policy makers, NGOs and the public are increasingly focusing attention on the threat that zoonotic (cross species) disease transmission poses to human health. Global transportation of people, wildlife and livestock, combined with increasing opportunities for cross-species disease transmission has already resulted in ...
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Nearly half of all primate species are now threatened with extinction, according to an evaluation by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The study, which drew on the work of hundreds of scientists and is the most comprehensive analysis for more than a decade, found that the conservation outlook for monkeys, apes and other primates has dramatically ...
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In the last few days, we have received reports that poachers have killed 17 elephants in the Virunga National Park in the Congo, at least 6 tigers in Nepal's Chitwan National Park and 6 rhinos in northern India and Nepal. Additionally a Greenpeace ship has confronted an Italian trawler illegally fishing with 10 kilometres of driftnets and an investigation in a market in Thailand discovered ...
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By Christine Wolf, Director of Government and International Affairs, The Fund for Animals The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) governs the trade of certain wildlife species amongst its 163 member nations. Primates are an important focus of CITES, specifically as it relates to orphans of the bushmeat trade and sanctuaries. The current constructs of ...
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Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study says. The declines in Indonesia and Malaysia since 2004 are mostly because of illegal logging and the expansion of palm oil plantations. The survey found the orangutan population on ...
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The Bushmeat Information Management and Analysis Project (Bushmeat IMAP) is an initiative developed by BCTF to create a central repository of information on the causes and solutions of bushmeat hunting, consumption and trade in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on Central Africa and protected areas. BCTF and the Global Forest Watch (GFW) program of World Resources Institute (WRI) ...
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BCTF continues to engage with the U.S. State Department, which has undertaken several efforts to address the bushmeat crisis and illegal wildlife trade around the world. MORE...
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by Andrew Tobiason, Bushmeat Crisis Task ForcePeople are inherently visual, and in the early days of raising awareness about the bushmeat crisis – five to ten years ago – photographs of dead gorillas and smoked antelope shocked the public and brought the conservation community to action. But action requires information. How many animals are affected? What are the ...
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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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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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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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Saying Beijing had improved enforcement against the illegal wildlife trade, the U.N. agency that monitors endangered species decided Tuesday that China may import tons of elephant ivory in a one-off sale from African government stockpiles.At a conference attended by delegates from dozens of nations, a panel for the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or ...
