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The authors examine connections between projects aimed at conserving biodiversity and alleviating poverty, including the conceptual background and an analysis of field projects with these dual goals. Project sub-categories include community-based wildlife management, extractive reserves and ecotourism. Arun Agrawal and Kent Redford, Poverty, development, and biodiversity ...
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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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The continued hunting of monkeys in many parts of the world has drastic consequences for the affected species and for the wider environment, scientists at the UN conference on biodiversity being held in Bonn said Tuesday. Immediate measures, including stricter legislation to control hunting and larger protection areas, were needed, 92 international researchers from the fields of ecology, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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After over a year of planning and review, BCTF has launched a campaign that encourages individuals around the world to make a personal commitment to solving the bushmeat crisis: the Bushmeat Promise. The Bushmeat Promise is structured to raise awareness, facilitate ...
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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 ...
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The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, revealed at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona. The new study to assess the world’s mammals shows at least 1,141 of the 5,487 mammals on Earth are known to ...
