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A screenshot from part one of the Bushmeat series, featuring footage from an interview with Dr. Eves.BCTF Director Dr. Heather E. Eves was one of several experts consulted for two stories on bushmeat, now available on Current TV. In the first story, journalist Mara Schiavocampo travels to the ...
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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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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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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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South Africa government announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population, drawing instant outrage from animal-rights activists.South Africa's elephant population has ballooned to more than 20,000 from 8,000 in 1995, when international pressure led to a ban on killing them. Under a set of final norms and standards for elephant ...
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Stanley Fish: Think AgainNew York TimesIn a case now pending in a federal court in Brooklyn, Mamie Manneh of Staten Island stands accused of having brought smoked bushmeat – known colloquially as monkey meat – into the United States without proper permits, in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.Ms. Manneh’s defense ...
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By TOM HAYSNEW YORK (AP) — From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat. Now, the tribal customs of Manneh and other West African immigrants have become the focus of an unusual criminal case charging her with meat smuggling, and touching on issues of ...
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By ELLEN BARRY, New York TimesIt takes strategic thinking to find monkey meat in New York. Best to avoid the word “monkey,” for one thing — start with something innocuous-sounding, like “dry meat,” or common, like “grass cutter,” a rodent similar to the guinea pig. Seek out the proprietors of tiny West African restaurants, or the ...
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By ELLEN BARRY, New York TimesA lawyer for a Staten Island woman charged with importing meat without proper licenses and mislabeling a shipment argued in Federal District Court yesterday that the charges should be dismissed because they impinge on the importer’s right to freedom of religion. The woman’s lawyer said the meat of African wild game had religious significance ...
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FRANK DONNELLYSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Monkeys are sacred to a Liberian native who emigrated to West Brighton more than two decades ago. Mamie Manneh and members of her church say eating primate parts -- known as bushmeat -- conforms with their religious beliefs and imbues them with the cunning and agile animal's spiritual power while also helping them "get closer to God." ...
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by Staten Island AdvanceThe tale of the Staten Island woman accused of smuggling 65 pieces of illegal smoked bushmeat into John F. Kennedy International Airport last year continues to take bizarre twists and turns as the case plays out in a Brooklyn courthouse.
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By FRANK DONNELLY, Staten Island Advance STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. In a clash of cultures playing out in Brooklyn federal court, a Staten Island woman claims she has the right to eat monkey parts in keeping with her religious beliefs. That's hooey, counter prosecutors, who contend that Mamie Manneh Jefferson, of the West Brighton section, illegally imported pieces of protected ...
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BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO. NewsdayDuring a search of a Staten Island garage last year, federal agents made a disturbing find: Among packages of smoked fish and clothing they discovered 33 pieces of African bushmeat, including the arm of a primate and pieces of a small rodent known as a cane rat. Now the garage owner, a Liberian immigrant named Mamie Jefferson, 39, finds herself a ...
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By FRANK DONNELLY ADVANCE STAFF WRITER STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.A West Brighton woman is serving a two-year state prison sentence for running over her husband's girl friend in a movie-theater parking lot last February. Now, the native of Liberia is trying to keep out of a federal lockup for allegedly importing primate (monkey) and other animal parts to America last year. Mamie Manneh ...
