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(Chapter 9 of "Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability")The results of the June 2004 IFAW forum in Limerick, Ireland which brought together experts from around the world who shared perspectives on wildlife conservation and the pursuit of ecological sustainability have been published in a complete volume. The papers cover general issues ...
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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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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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Summarized from two reports to BCTF, Extracting Hope for Bushmeat and Timber Certification, by Rina Aviram, Margot Bass, and Keri Parker. For the full reports, please visit
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
