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(UMD Master's Thesis)UMD Masters student Lynsey White interned for BCTF in the summer of 2005 and produced her scholarly thesis on potential partnerships between conservation and development efforts to address the bushmeat crisis. White examines the overlap between goals these agendas and identifies opportunities for collaboration, including: human health impacts, decline in ...
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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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On January 31, 2003, students from the University of Maryland Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology (CONS) program presented the results of research they conducted on behalf of BCTF. The quality of the research and presentations was excellent, and results and analysis are already helping shape BCTF priorities. After an overview of BCTF’s mission and ...
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Executive summary of Monkey Business in Gabon: A Case Study of Bushmeat in Central Africa (IFAW 2003). Reprinted by permission from IFAW. For the full report, visit http://www.ifaw.org/page.asp?unitid=459 Boxed text was written by BCTF. Graphics and box-text information is attributable to ...
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by Andrew Tobiason, BCTFThe bushmeat crisis in West and Central Africa will continue as long as there are individuals who rely on wildlife for protein or income. No amount of enforcement or awareness will curb this trade in the absence of realistic alternatives. However, wildlife conservation efforts have traditionally focused on creating and strengthening ...
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by Andrew Tobiason, BCTFBased on information in Playing in Counterpoint: Bushmeat Users and the Possibility of Alternatives, by Becky Archer, Jim Beck, Karen Douthwaite and David Ruppert of the Fall 2002 ‘Problem Solvers’ course in the University of Maryland graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology (the CONS ...
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Summary of situation as of March 2003by graduate student Diane Pitassy, for BCTFWildlife DeclinesData on wildlife numbers and declines from scientific monitoring operations are lacking. A few localized reports of snare deaths from conservancy sites are available, but countrywide information, to my knowledge, does not exist ...
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This unique gathering was attended by more than 150 participants from over 20 countries who collectively represented dozens of government agencies, non-governmental organizations, funding institutions, media, universities, and private industry. It was an extremely important and productive gathering of bushmeat experts and interested professionals, which identified numerous action items for ...
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CI-Ghana takes aim at a practice that is devastating the country's wildlife and poisoning the population by Patrick Johnston, Conservation InternationalReprinted by permission from the Winter 2003 issue of Conservation Frontlines newsletter, Conservation InternationalThe bushmeat sellers had heard ...
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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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Conservationists at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent, are celebrating a double achievement the success of a conservation programme in Rwanda that has helped turn gorilla poachers into ecotourism guides, and a major international award for the programme’s founder, alumnus Edwin Sabuhoro.Mr Sabuhoro, a Rwandan national, completed his ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
