But with the influx of vast numbers of loggers, the eating of bushmeat has escalated. |
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Though, personally, I prefer the story of the Dalston traders who did a roaring trade in bushmeat. |
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But commercial hunting for bushmeat has become such a problem here that we had to try something new to control it. |
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Poaching for bushmeat during the conflict by locals and armed militias had a serious impact on the bonobos. |
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Most illegal imports are beef, pork or chicken, but the trade also includes meat from endangered species, known as bushmeat. |
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Take bushmeat, the name for wild animals that are shot, snared, trapped or captured for food. |
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According to a probe into the dealers, as much as 10 tonnes of African bushmeat may be arriving in London each day. |
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Few are dependent on bushmeat to feed their families, and they set snares only for bushpigs, bushbucks, and duikers. |
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Many scientists believe it is spread through the butchering and handling of primate bushmeat. |
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The bushmeat trade is rife in parts of Africa, where animals ranging from rats, wild dogs, lions leopards and rare apes are trapped for food. |
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Thousands more gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos have been killed for bushmeat. |
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Some Baka, seeing the money that the Bantu are earning from the bushmeat trade, are now hunting for profit, too. |
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However, in certain areas local poaching is still observed and is reported to be covered by local authorities involved in the bushmeat trade. |
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Experts agree that the current level of bushmeat trade is unsustainable and will not solve poverty or hunger. |
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A general rule is that rural communities consume more bushmeat than urban communities because of greater availability and, often, by preference. |
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You have just visited a city market and have discovered a stall openly selling bushmeat. |
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Significantly increased law enforcement may be the most effective way to curtail bushmeat hunting, which should be halted within protected areas. |
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The bushmeat trade is a problem requiring a multipronged, extensive strategy. |
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And bushmeat is finding its way into European and American markets. |
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Bushmeat is not a new concept in Africa, but the recent dramatic commercialization of bushmeat in central and western Africa has fueled the primate crisis. |
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In many areas, they are hunted illegally for ivory and bushmeat. |
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Talking about bushmeat as a loss of cultural heritage resonates there. |
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Still, many questions remained about the lesula, the most pressing of which was how the bushmeat trade was impacting the primate. |
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Though resident expatriates and tourists often sample the more bizarre items on her menu, it is the Congolese for whom the bushmeat is most popular. |
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Discounting the occasional outbreak among bushmeat hunters, Ebola seems content to lurk. |
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Central to concerns over bushmeat are fears that carcasses can contain simian foaming virus, something scientists say can jump to humans if they eat the meat. |
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The paper provides definitive proof for the assumption that Ebola moves from wildlife populations to humans through the consumption or handling of carcasses or bushmeat. |
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The issue was the trade in wild game, or, as Africans call it, bushmeat. |
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The growing population has increased demand for bushmeat and small-farmer agricultural production. |
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Information about IFAW's projects including the Canadian seal hunt and the bushmeat issue. |
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The workers are killing more animals than they need to eat, and are selling them as bushmeat in the towns to make money. |
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Investigate the potential outlets for bushmeat to enter international markets. |
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It will be important to seek support from those Parties within whose territory bushmeat trade is widespread. |
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If we talk about stamping out the illegal trade in bushmeat, all we will do is drive it underground and make it much more difficult to deal with. |
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Small-scale extraction of diamonds and gold poses threats to biodiversity through forest clearance and associated bushmeat hunting. |
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However, levels of bushmeat hunting in Central and West Africa have soared in recent years, especially as a function of logging. |
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It is widely acknowledged that current levels of bushmeat hunting and trade are unsustainable for people and the environment. |
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The bushmeat crisis results first and foremost from an unmanaged common resource being unsustainably harvested because of inadequate governance and policy frameworks. |
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Your team is overworked. You believe that more should be done in other countries to use all available laws and ways of enforcing them to stop the trade before bushmeat even gets to Canada. |
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Campaigns to educate consumers about impact of the bushmeat trade, and to inform the judiciary of wildlife laws and regulations, will contribute to efforts to reduce the impact of unregulated hunting. |
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More proximate threats include local community activities that are incompatible with biodiversity conservation, bushmeat hunting and lack of local awareness of conservation issues and biodiversity values. |
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In fact, the logging companies that subsidize hunting to provide meat for logging crews also transport large quantities of bushmeat to major population centers. |
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In Africa they represent a particular threat to precious forest fauna, including chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, by connecting forests to the fast-growing cities where bushmeat is prized. |
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Conservation groups speak of a bushmeat crisis and foresee the day when the primates and antelopes that make up the bulk of the trade become extinct. |
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As a result of the commercialisation of the bushmeat trade, wildlife populations are being decimated, including rare and endangered animals such as elephants and lowland gorillas. |
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Congo's fractured war Eating bushmeat is not advised Forest fears Choice of evils ReprintsUnder pressure from the NCA, Mr Mugabe has agreed that the constitution should be rewritten. |
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This means they must hunt for bushmeat to supplement their diet. |
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Third, following on from the issue of legitimacy, resolution of the bushmeat crisis can only be the product of strategies that seek to reinforce local rights. |
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Second, there is an urgent need to remove the stigma around bushmeat. |
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However, modern external pressures on their territories such as illegal nonlocal hunters and bushmeat traders are omnipresent and difficult to stop. |
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Some British zoologists say trade in African bushmeat should be regulated rather than banned. |
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Meat industry representatives remain largely confident that new policing systems are stopping illegal bushmeat imports. |
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Urban ethnic neighborhoods are often hotspots for endangered species products such as bushmeat and ivory. |
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The outbreak is believed to be caused by tainted bushmeat hunted by local villagers, according to Reuters. |
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Brashares notes that fans of bushmeat have explained to him at length how to appreciate the best of certain species. |
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Despite the efforts of park authorities, high levels of hunting occur in most areas of the Okwangwo Division, driven by the lucrative bushmeat market. |
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Create a national public awareness campaign about the trade in bushmeat. |
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As most seizures are not tested to determine the species involved, it is impossible to know what proportion of international bushmeat trade consists of CITES-listed species. |
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It's now pretty clear that it originated from bushmeat hunting in Africa. |
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Exposure to blood, secretions, or tissues from infected primates through hunting and butchering of bushmeat represents the most plausible source for human infection. |
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I hope everyone writes to their MP to help stop Bushmeat trading. |
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