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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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Frank Donnelly and Sametta Thompson, Staten Island AdvanceFour months ago, federal agents at JFK International Airport reported finding something peculiar and potentially dangerous buried beneath smoked fish in a shipment from Africa for a West Brighton woman: There were 65 pieces of illegal smoked bushmeat, including monkey skulls and limbs, and even a hoof and leg belonging to a ...
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Nearly half of all primate species are now threatened with extinction, according to an evaluation by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The study, which drew on the work of hundreds of scientists and is the most comprehensive analysis for more than a decade, found that the conservation outlook for monkeys, apes and other primates has dramatically ...
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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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Just three years after it was discovered, a new species of monkey is threatened with extinction according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which recently published the first-ever census of the endangered primate. Known as the "kipunji," the large, forest-dwelling primate hovers at 1,117 individuals.The authors also discovered that much of the monkey's remaining habitat ...
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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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by EMMA MARRIS, NatureBaboons, duiker antelopes and cane rats are available by the pound in markets in major cities in North America and Europe, a scientist reported at the Society for Conservation Biology meeting in San Jose, California, this week. While the meat showing up in cities from New York to London represent just a sliver of the illegal bushmeat trade, it highlights the ...
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April 11, 2008 A rare monkey species, the Tana River Red Colobus only found in Kenya, faces extinction due to encroachment on their habitat by human activities. The Tana River Red Colobus monkey is among 25 primates which have been included on IUCN’s list of endangered species. The Kenya Wildlife Services official has confirmed that farming, ...
