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(Ape Alliance & WSPA Report)The Ape Alliance, funded by WSPA, has recently completed a review of bushmeat related activities worldwide. The final report (5MB) is now on-line. This pdf file does not include the detailed appendices, but these are available on the Ape Alliance site, www.4apes.com/bushmeat. BCTF is acknowledged in the paper for its assistance in ...
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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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Research by intern Lynsey White, and meetings in June and July with FAO, Peace Corps, Heifer International and others, are helping BCTF craft solutions and identify opportunities for reconciling conservation and development goals and activities. Prominent foundations are taking a closer look at the connections between poverty and conservation as well.
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by Judy Oglethorpe, WWF-US and Nancy Gelman, Africa Biodiversity Collaborative GroupThe HIV/AIDS pandemic is having large impacts on conservation in Africa through loss of institutional capacity for conservation, and increased use of natural resources including bushmeat.AIDS (Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome), which is the late stage of ...
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by Nancy Gelman, ABCG This reprint of "ABCG Notes" summarizes the discussion and conclusions from a joint ABCG-BCTF meeting of the same title. Links to the original publication and associated resources (suggested reading, websites, and copies of presentations) are available to the right and at www.abcg.org. ...
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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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While unsustainable bushmeat hunting impacts a diversity of wildlife, the threat to a few charismatic species brought attention to the crisis in the late 1990’s. African great apes have been hit particularly hard by the growing trade, and their plight forced wildlife conservation groups to evaluate what they were doing about the bushmeat crisis. For many organizations, ...
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With just 300 individuals left in the wild, Cross River gorillas have found new conservation support from the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria, the only two countries where these great apes live.Representatives from the two nations agreed last week to improve trans-boundary cooperation to protect the critically endangered species, as well as other endangered wildlife.The ...
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While it may seem to many that the bushmeat crisis is something that happens “over there,” growing evidence shows that bushmeat is also in our own backyard. As BCTF and its members address global bushmeat/ wildlife trade issues in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world, we must also take action on the illegal importation of bushmeat and wildlife products into our own ...
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Conservationists have long argued that the hunting of terrestrial wildlife for food – including mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians – poses a threat to the survival of many tropical forest species and ecosystems. A new study suggests global societies should be equally concerned that the so-called “bushmeat crisis” is also a food security crisis for many ...
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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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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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Columbus Zoo Develops a book for Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary and the Children of CongoBy Rebecca Rose, Field Conservation Director, Columbus ZooIn collaboration with Les Amies des Bonobos du Congo (The Friends of Bonobos of Congo), the Columbus Zoo is developing a children’s book entitled Protegez la faune et la flore precieuses du Congo ...
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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 ...
