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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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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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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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The European Commission has launched a Report and an Internet site aimed at providing information for the protection of biodiversity in Africa.In a communiqué released in Brussels, the European Executive said the website would be based on the latest breakthroughs in satellite technologies designed to slow down the decline ...
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The Forests of the Congo Basin: A Preliminary Assessment/ Les Forets du Bassin du Congo: Evaluation Preliminaire" (2005) and Forests of the Congo Basin: State of the Forest (2006) are available in English and French. These reports provides a natural history of the Congo Basin, along with current threats to wildlife and forests, and opportunities to conserve and sustainably manage ...
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by Andrew Tobiason, BCTFFor more than 20 years, international conservation groups have worked with counterparts in local communities and governments to save wildlife in Central Africa. Poverty, corruption, AIDS and war plague the region, and arguments for protecting wild animals and places are usually secondary to hunger relief and economic development. Meanwhile, ...
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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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April 23, 2008 - Apes are on the verge of extinction due to extreme poaching for bush meat and their global demand to be used for scientific research, but there are initiatives to save the endangered species. There are increasingly necessitated efforts to help protect the great endangered chimpanzees and gorillas that are likely to become extinct because of their increasing demand ...
