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Voice of AmericaExperts say the continuing popularity of wildlife meat, or bushmeat, is encouraging armed poachers to gun down hundreds of thousands of animals. ...

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Zoo and Aquarium Visitor NewsThe bushmeat trade – the killing of wild animals to be used as human food – is also a major threat to the western lowland gorilla population throughout the ...

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Mongabay.comThe bushmeat trade in the Congo basin has been widely publicized but poorly addressed. While fines and sentences exist for wildlife trafficking, ...

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Zoo and Aquarium Visitor NewsClassified as critically endangered, western lowland gorillas have been badly affected by the illegal bushmeat trade and the destruction of their forest ...

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Mongabay.comAt the same time that the northern rainforests were being pillaged for their timber, a disturbing new trade emerged: commercial bushmeat hunting of lemurs. ...

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NewsBlaze...to stem the continued loss of great ape habitat or the threats to apes from hunting for bushmeat and from diseases such as Ebola," said Deutsch. ...

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Scientific American (blog)The animals are also often victims of the bushmeat trade. Whereas wild chimpanzee populations plummet, more and more chimps end up in rescue and ...

Woman contracts gorilla HIV strain  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
SmartBriefThe woman claims she has not interacted with apes or eaten bushmeat, so researchers are unable to determine whether the disease was transmitted directly

Last chance to save the gorilla  -  ‎Aug 2, 2009‎
Ethiopian ReviewAn estimated 1 million tonnes of bushmeat is taken each year from these forests, a haul that includes chimps, gorillas, elephants and other rare species.

Changing attitudes to gorillas  -  ‎Jul 22, 2009‎
New ScientistThe quickest way to end hunting is to step up anti-poaching patrols, confiscate and destroy illegal bushmeat and clamp down on illegal firearms.

Year of the disappearing ape  -  ‎Jul 24, 2009‎
New ScientistThe logic goes as follows: cut people's need to chop down forest or hunt bushmeat and the gorillas will benefit. Create parks to provide jobs and,

What you can do to help gorillas  -  ‎Jul 22, 2009‎
New ScientistTimber companies, many of them European owned, encourage trade in bushmeat by cutting roads into into remote forests, providing access for commercial

Borneo orangutan release in jeopardy over fate of coal mining ...  -  ‎Jul 29, 2009‎
Mongabay.comIts departure from a remote forest area in Bakhuis Mountains of Suriname last year was followed by large-scale poaching for commercial bushmeat markets.

Congo moves to save bonobos  -  ‎Jul 27, 2009‎
Globe and MailThe Sankuru Nature Reserve aims to protect a section of Africa's largest rain forest from the commercial bushmeat trade and from deforestation by industrial

Are Gorillas Doomed? Is the UN making a huge mistake?  -  ‎Jul 29, 2009‎
EcoWorldlyThe logic is to eliminate people's need to chop down forest or hunt for bushmeat by eliminating poverty. The plan provides for the creation of parks to

A force of nature  -  ‎Jul 23, 2009‎
guardian.co.ukEach year, we extract 7m tonnes of bushmeat from tropical forests, 95m tonnes of fish from the oceans, and raze 80000 sq km of forest.

Calgary Zoo's new curator brings unique perspective to job  -  ‎Jul 17, 2009‎
Canada.comC)went off to live and work in Cameroon at a primate rescue facility, rehabilitating baby monkeys whose mothers had been killed for the bushmeat trade.

Time runs out for the gorillas  -  ‎Jul 23, 2009‎
The NationalGorillas are protected by law in all 10 gorilla countries yet hunting remains big business and bushmeat is sold openly even in major towns.

Atlas cove attack: Militants react to speculations  -  ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
NEXTE come be like say the bushmeat don d catch the hunter! Abeg Oga Fed. Govt. try listen up and DIALOGUE o oo! why cant MEND attack the politicians in their

Brad Pitt adds bike to his collection  -  ‎Jul 29, 2009‎
Gaea TimesDoing a final presentation in school about The Great Apes, Bushmeat, rights of apes... krizwhiz Took the "how well do you know harry potter movies" quiz

Mensapen eindigen massaal in de pan  -  ‎Jul 31, 2009‎
VolkskrantStropers halen elk jaar een miljoen ton bushmeat uit Afrika. Uit een nieuwe studie blijkt dat de handel in vlees van wilde, vaak met uitsterven bedreigde

Neue HIV-Variante stammt vom Gorilla ab  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
DiePresse.comJahrhunderts die Artenschranke zum Menschen überschritten, wahrscheinlich wurden Jäger, die Schimpansenfleisch („bushmeat“) aßen, als erste infiziert.

Het nut van taboes  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
NRC HandelsbladIn de Volkskrant van afgelopen zaterdag stond een stuk over 'bushmeat': de Afrikaanse gewoonte om alles wat beweegt te schieten en op te eten.

Jobba i det vilda  -  ‎Aug 1, 2009‎
Svenska DagbladetDen illegala jakten på impala, kudo och andra antiloper som säljs som bushmeat (viltkött) har ökat enormt, säger hon. En vattenbock skymtas bland de låga

Veel apenvlees verkocht  -  ‎Aug 2, 2009‎
Nos Jeugdjournaal...'Bushmeat' wordt het ook wel genoemd. Elk jaar wordt 100 miljoen kilo aan wilde dieren gevangen en opgegeten. Officieel is het verboden om wilde dieren

Gorillavariant hiv overgeslagen op mensen  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
Blog.nlDe handel in bushmeat is dan ook een serieuze bedreiging voor de primaten van Centraal-Afrika. “Het zou erg verrassend zijn als er niet al veel meer mensen

Illegal miners destroying swathes of wildlife in Democratic ...  -  25 Mar 2009
Wildlife ExtraSadly, there is evidence that the bushmeat trade is spreading rapidly into the Bili and Rubi-Tele protected areas, both of which have been recently invaded

Bushmeat hunting in Tanzania  -  ‎Mar 22, 2009‎
Mongabay.comBushmeat hunting constitutes the most immediate threat to wildlife populations in the Udzungwa Mountains of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot in

Health alert over rise in bushmeat trade  -  ‎Mar 8, 2009‎
East AfricanBy PAUL REDFERN (email the author) Large amounts of illegal bushmeat continue to be sold to the public in Kenya and are even shipped to UK markets,

Dead goat left on New York legislator's doorstep  -  ‎Mar 6, 2009‎
Reuters...who has sponsored bills to crack down on inhumane dog breeding practices and the illegal sale of African bushmeat, the lawmaker said on Friday.

Dr Jane Goodall on conservation, chimps and books  -  ‎Mar 4, 2009‎
guardian.co.ukLoss of habitat and the commercial bushmeat trade. Around the turn of the last century, there were an estimated one to two million chimpanzees living in the

Letters: Are council set on ‘destroying’ square?  -  ‎Mar 13, 2009‎
Huddersfield ExaminerIn many parts of Africa, bushmeat has evolved from a low-level subsistence activity to a large-scale commercial trade, supplying urban and even

ChuÅ¥ gorilího masa znají vojáci i policisté  -  ‎Mar 4, 2009‎
Český rozhlasV Kamerunu můžete navÅ¡tívit dokonce i speciální bushmeat restaurace. Pro bÄ›locha je zpravidla nemožnÄ› dostat se do tÄ›chto míst.

See The Colobus, Howler, And Proboscis Monkey Babies At Singapore Zoo  -  ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News...primates the world over continue to face tremendous pressures that threaten their existence, ranging from habitat destruction to poaching for bushmeat.

Bristol Zoo's Vet Returns From Assisting Orphaned Chimpanzees And ...  -  ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor NewsCWAF works to protect apes from the illegal bushmeat and pet trades. Around 90 per cent of the chimpanzee population throughout Africa has already been lost

UN, zoo group launch 'Year of the Gorilla'  -  ‎Mar 10, 2009‎
Canada.comThe main threats include hunting for "bushmeat," a prized delicacy in western Africa, as well as logging, slash-and-burn agriculture and armed conflict,

Economics 101: guns and monkeymeat  -  ‎Mar 14, 2009‎
Examiner.comYearning turned into a "bushmeat" market, encompassing monkey, zebra, and other illegal meats brought into the US and Europe - and this is a perishable

Primatologist Goodall: China plundering Africa resources  -  ‎Mar 10, 2009‎
AFPShe also blamed the rampant bushmeat trade for helping devastate primate populations. The trade is facilitated by foreign logging concerns building roads

Invitation to a Gorilla Lovefest  -  ‎Mar 13, 2009‎
ConciergeGorillas are critically endangered, thanks to such human activities as logging, war, and the bushmeat trade. The Year of the Gorilla aims to help wild

Zweiter Platz für Luxemburger Naturfotograf  -  ‎Mar 4, 2009‎
Luxemburger WortGewinner des mit 2000 Euro dotierten Wettbewerbs wurde das aufwühlende Bild “Bushmeat� des Briten David Maitland. Das kontrovers diskutierte Gewinnerfoto

Pressemitteilung - Erlebnis-Zoo Hannover bietet an Ostern Spezial...  -  ‎Mar 13, 2009‎
newsmax Medien Informationsdienst (Pressemitteilung)Das besondere Verhältnis von Mensch zu Menschenaffen ist ebenso Thema wie „Bushmeat“ – Gorillas als Delikatesse –, die Abholzung der Regenwälder und die

Cameroon creates new national park to protect gorillas, chimps and ...  -  ‎Mar 10, 2009‎
Wildlife Extra...role in enforcing regulations that ban transportation of bushmeat or any other wildlife products from remote locations to urban markets by local trains.

«Europäischer Naturfotograf des Jahres 2008»  -  ‎Mar 19, 2009‎
sh:z MediengrummelGesamtsieger wurde der Brite David Maitland mit seinem Bild über die Zubereitung von «Bushmeat»: In Nahaufnahme zeigt das Bild, wie der Leichnam eines

Sorge um die friedlichen Riesen  -  ‎Mar 10, 2009‎
derStandard.atWeil sich einem Aberglauben zufolge die Stärke der Tiere beim Verzehr ihres Fleisches auf den Menschen überträgt, wird das sogenannte "Bushmeat" der

Land Rover to Support Efforts in Halting Illegal Bushmeat Trade  -  21 Feb 2009
TruckTrend MagazineBy Benson Kong A disturbing increase in the illegal bushmeat trade in Kenya has prompted Land Rover and the international wildlife charity Born Free to

DStv Reviews  -  21 Feb 2009
The Times,As well as telling the amazing stories of the apes at the reserve, the show goes behind the scenes of the terrible bushmeat trade, following traffickers

Cameroon Sets Up Chicago-Size National Park to Protect Gorillas  -  Feb 20, 2009
BloombergWCS, which helps enforce rules in Cameroon banning the transportation and sale of bushmeat, in November also helped Cameroon create Takamanda National Park,

Camera trap photos reveal bushmeat hunting threat to jaguars in ...  -  Jan 27, 2009
Mongabay.com...“Bushmeat hunting by local communities has increased due to road development that provides access to otherwise isolated areas.

Web chat: Illegal bushmeat in Kenya  -  Jan 28, 2009
TravelBite.co.uk,Fail to read up and holidaymakers could risk exposing themselves to illegal bushmeat, and the harmful diseases that they carry, such as Ebola.

Oil and bushmeat threaten Ecuador’s jaguars  -  Feb 2, 2009
RT,This, in turn, has allowed for easy bushmeat hunting, limiting the prey left for the jaguars that they would usually thrive upon. “There is competition for

8 in 10 conflicts in environmental 'hotspots': study  -  Feb 20, 2009
AFPThe proliferation of small arms -- the weapon of choice in most conflicts -- leads to "increased hunting for bushmeat, wildlife products and sport,

Webchat: Brits warned over illegal meat trade  -  Feb 10, 2009
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Minister to ensure implementation of Lusaka Agreement.  -  Feb 16, 2009
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation,The persistent food scarcity and escalating food prices has led to an increase in subsistence poaching and illegal bush meat trade mainly in the lowland

African fisheries hit hardest by climate change  -  Feb 11, 2009
New Scientist,AS BUSHMEAT becomes more scarce, with many species at risk of extinction, billions of the world's poor are relying ever more on fish.

National Zoological Gardens of South Africa Celebrates "Year of ...  -  Jan 29, 2009
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News,Numerous threats endanger gorillas’ survival; the most shocking being the bushmeat trade. As the demand for bushmeat increases so gorillas are facing a

Life Technologies Highlights 2008 Philanthropy and Provides Focus ...  -  Feb 2, 2009
Business Wire (press release),...“The students’ project was designed to help track and reduce the trade of African bushmeat, which not only endangers the local species, but also can lead to

75 wild jaguars shot -- on film  -  Jan 28, 2009
USA Today...“Bushmeat hunting by local communities has increased due to road development that provides access to otherwise isolated areas.� More remote areas harbor

Monkeys Kill Mayor  -  Feb 11, 2009
The Times,Chimp Eden is going full-steam on a strange and dangerous rescue mission across Africa, saving chimps from cages and keeping them out of the bushmeat trade.

Budget date set for April 22nd  -  Feb 13, 2009
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Unemployment fails to break two million  -  Feb 12, 2009
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Schoolgirls among RAF aircraft crash victims  -  Feb 12, 2009
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Land Rover supports “Born Freeâ€? initiative  -  Feb 12, 2009
CanadianDriver,A new film, produced in Kenya by Born Free in partnership with Land Rover, has been created to raise awareness of the illegal “bushmeat� trade in Kenya,

NHS 'neglecting prisoners'  -  Feb 11, 2009
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Humans First Got Crabs From Gorillas; Insist It’s Not What It ...  -  Feb 11, 2009
Discover Magazine,Because a predator can easily pick up parasites from its prey, the lice could have jumped to early humans while they butchered gorillas for bushmeat.

High street sales up but 'more stores to close'  -  Feb 10, 2009
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Obama administration demands stricter food labels  -  Feb 18, 2009
International Herald Tribune,AP WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is throwing out food labeling rules proposed by the Agriculture Department just before George W. Bush left office,

United States-Country of Origin laws postponed.  -  Feb 10, 2009
Farming UK,The US Department of Agriculture this week stated it has dropped April 1 as the date on which new country-of-origin-labeling for food requirements will be

Wildlife Conservation Society helps Cameroon create new national park  -  Feb 19, 2009
HULIQ,...role in enforcing regulations that ban transportation of bushmeat or any other wildlife products from remote locations to urban markets by local trains.

Hidden forest of Mozambique  -  Feb 20, 2009
Guardian Weekly,Hunting only occurs on the edge of the forest and the local population is very small, with bad roads in and out, so there is no trade in bushmeat at this

Found With Illegal Game Meat  -  Feb 6, 2009
Coastweek,Kenya Wildlife Service investigators arrested the suspect on Saturday at a popular meat eating Burma Market with 74 kg of bush meat. She had hidden the bush

London boy launches campaign to help apes and kids in Congo  -  Jan 27, 2009
Sault Star,According to The Canadian Ape Alliance, gorillas, chimpanzees and other forest animals are being slaughtered at an alarming rate for bushmeat.

Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!!  -  Feb 18, 2009
Huffington Post,...desperation for the latest vaccine and rice shipments in the Heart of Darkness, might have thought about old Mr. Bushmeat living it up so hoity toity.

GORILLAS IN THE MIDST OF AN ALMIGHTY BUST-UP  -  Jan 31, 2009
UK Express,Hunted for bushmeat, losing their habitat because of deforestation and being decimated by Ebola virus, they are a species on the brink.

Inside the world of 'Wildlife CSI'  -  Feb 2, 2009
Telegraph.co.uk,...operation at Heathrow Airport saw Dr Ogden's team working with customs officials who were searching flights from Africa for illegally smuggled bushmeat.

Meat dealer arrested with game meat  -  Feb 1, 2009
Capital FM,BY WAMBUI WAWERU NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 1 - A Nairobi businesswoman has been arrested at a popular meat market with 74 kg of bush meat.

Profile: Emmanuel Nyemb, taxi driver  -  Jan 29, 2009
Creative Loafing Atlanta,And you can use it to cook bush meat. Bush meat is like … I guess what you call here a “game animal� — wild boars and antelopes.

Swinging Safari  -  Feb 14, 2009
The Times,...suffering the early trauma of seeing their mothers butchered for the bushmeat trade before being sold into slavery as pets in bars, restaurants,

Eating the Wild  -  Jan 25, 2009
New York Times,It is what keeps the Japanese whaling and keeps some Africans eating bush meat. And it is one of the things that helps explain the voracious and utterly

Q&A: Jane Goodall's quest to empower refugee children  -  Jan 30, 2009
Reuters AlertNet,People living in refugee camps are often accused of illegal hunting and of consuming bush meat, including chimpanzees and gorillas.

PETA Wants NBC to Ban Ads Involving Cruelty to Animals  -  Feb 3, 2009
PETA (press release),As a result, the very real problems that chimpanzees in the wild face--such as a shrinking habitat and the bush-meat trade--are ignored.

Scientists discover new method for tracking prostate cancer  -  Feb 10, 2009
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Darwin's 200th Birthday: Evolutionary Biology Experts Available  -  Jan 29, 2009
AScribe (press release)...from a simian virus found in chimpanzees that was first transmitted to humans through the bush meat trade in central Africa no later than the 1930s.

Environmentally Concerned Citizen's Association ends educational tour  -  Feb 13, 2009
Modern Ghana,Mr. Peprah Smith Darko, the District Fire Officer, attributed human activities such as palm wine tapping, bush meat hunting, cattle herdsmen,

Why are Uganda and Rwanda’s rebels abroad?  -  Jan 31, 2009
Daily Monitor,Heavily populated, and without much bush to speak of, a party of bush meat hunters, complete with nets, horns, spears and scruffy dogs crossing this road

Reality check for deforestation debate  -  Jan 27, 2009
BBC News,Many, including apes, monkeys, and forest elephants, are being killed off by rampant overhunting and the commercial bushmeat trade.

Hunger stalks many as crops fail and water wells dry up  -  Jan 27, 2009
Daily Nation,The situation at Ganze has forced residents to rely on wild fruits, tubers and bush meat. “During times of famine, we drink mthunguru because it keeps

Fractures heal faster with bone-building cells  -  Feb 11, 2009
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A Haunting Presence: Pirates, Then and Now  -  Feb 9, 2009
Dissident Voice,African waters (the same thing is also occurring with devastating consequences for wildlife as hunted ‘bushmeat’ replaces fish for protein consumption).

Hospital chief attacks NHS IT system  -  Feb 13, 2009
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Heart disease link to maternal death  -  Feb 10, 2009
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Taxmen protest in parliament  -  Feb 12, 2009
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Mandelson and Cable among Channel 4 award winners  -  Feb 12, 2009
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Recession fears driving sick employees to work  -  Feb 12, 2009
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Computer games linked to stress  -  Feb 10, 2009
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UA study takes aim at poaching bushmeat in Africa  -  Nov 15, 2008
KTAR.com,Bushmeat - the meat of gorillas, chimpanzees, elephants and other endangered and exotic species - is being consumed and sold throughout sub-Saharan Africa,

Bushmeat can cause health problems – US scientists  -  Nov 7, 2008
The Punch,By Agency Reporter Scientists in the United States have warned that consumers of wild game aka bushmeat, which were killed by lead bullets,

Goodall receives U of T honours, works on new book, reflects on ...  -  Nov 14, 2008
The Canadian Press,She's also focused on trying to eliminate the illegal and increasingly commercialized trade in bushmeat, which threatens the survival of chimps and other

European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008  -  Nov 14, 2008
New Scientist (subscription),The winner of this year's competition is David Maitland from Great Britain with his disturbing photograph of bushmeat being prepared for a food market.

Jane Goodall branches out  -  Oct 31, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Deforestation and human population growth . . . and the bushmeat trade, which does go on all over the world. It's a very great threat for the great apes,

Deep in the Rain Forest, Stalking the Next Pandemic  -  Oct 21, 2008
New York Times,The subsistence, or “bushmeat,� hunters he tracks face a singular occupational hazard: their blood often mingles with that of their prey.

Gorilla fascination started young  -  Oct 23, 2008
BBC News,By Clare Babbidge A Birmingham woman who has spent seven years in Cameroon caring for gorillas and chimps orphaned by the illegal bushmeat trade has

Baby colobus monkey steps out at Denver Zoo  -  Oct 30, 2008
Denver Post,Humans are among their biggest threats because they are hunted for bushmeat. The Denver Zoo has more than 3500 animals representing more than 700 species.

Ape Awareness Day at the LA Zoo  -  Nov 5, 2008
LAist,...an extremely critical time for gorillas in the wild as they are facing the challenge of both habitat destruction and being hunted in the bushmeat trade.

Beauty rich with unease in Wildlife photos  -  Nov 3, 2008
This is London,Dave Maitland’s One Earth Award-winning “Sacrifice�, a sickening image of a colobus monkey’s head in a bonfire, highlights the bushmeat trade but raises

Chimps need help: Goodall  -  Oct 30, 2008
Metro Canada - Vancouver,Among the issues facing chimpanzees today is a loss of habitat and “bushmeat� — the hunting of the animals for food. In her travels (she spends 300 days a

On an African safari  -  Oct 30, 2008
Daily News & Analysis,..."Bushmeat hunting is often the most common factor pressing upon antelope populations. In the old days, this was for local consumption, now it includes

ASU Researchers Receive NIH Awards For Studies Of Malaria And ...  -  Oct 30, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),To date, most research on emerging primate-borne disease has focused on perceived high-risk human populations, such as bushmeat hunters in Africa,

Ban on primate experiments would be devastating, scientists warn  -  Nov 1, 2008
guardian.co.uk,Many primate species face extinction, they argued, thanks to increased habitat destruction and eating of their flesh, known as bushmeat.

Congo's maverick warlord who kills in the name of Christianity  -  Oct 31, 2008
Times Online,As Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Angola all joined in the fight and stripped the country of its resources - from gold and tin to cows and bushmeat — General

Kids and Money  -  Nov 9, 2008
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)People who live in the jungle, where survival depends on eating bushmeat, must learn to hunt and butcher animals at a very early age.

Calne photographer wins top award  -  Nov 7, 2008
Gazette & Herald,Mr Matitland, 51, who lives at St Mary’s School in Calne, won the One Earth Award for his image highlighting the illegal bushmeat trade in Gabon,

Friends of Animals to Fund Chimpanzee Refuge in West Africa  -  Nov 6, 2008
E-Wire (press release),Many of the refuge's chimpanzees were confiscated as orphans of parents killed by hunters for bushmeat or for zoos, the entertainment industry,

Congo crisis threatens mountain gorillas  -  Oct 30, 2008
WWF International,Also, without regular patrols by the park’s rangers, bushmeat hunting and the illegal charcoal trade could thrive in the chaos.

African Nations Outline Sustainability Plan  -  Nov 3, 2008
AZoCleantech,This includes giving specific attention to the issue of illegal logging, wanton mining and the ever-increasing trade in bushmeat and ivory, all drivers of

African Nations Can Turn Resource Demand Driving Deforestation ...  -  Nov 2, 2008
AZoCleantech,At the same time, commercial hunting for bushmeat – already at 1 million tones a year – is expected to double in the next 25 years. To counter these adverse

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 winners announced  -  Oct 31, 2008
What Digital Camera (press release),Wiltshire-based photographer David Maitland won two categories: The 'One Earth Award' for his disturbing picture Sacrifice highlighting the illegal bushmeat

Young Canadian works to save the chimpanzees  -  Oct 28, 2008
Ubyssey Online,...“I was horrified about how they were killing chimpanzees for the bushmeat trade and using them for entertainment, so I wanted to find out how I could help

Detroit Zoo new home to drills  -  Oct 21, 2008
Royal Oak Daily Tribune,Found in the equatorial rain forest zone of west central Africa, the drill, also known as Mandrillus leucophaeus, is threatened by habitat loss and bushmeat

Comments on this Story  -  Nov 10, 2008
Arizona Daily Star,...villages across sub-Saharan Africa, UA geneticist Hans-Werner Herrmann knew he had to do something about the devastation caused by the bushmeat trade.

Czech project The Revealed supports gorilla protection in Africa  -  Nov 3, 2008
California Chronicle,They are especially endangered by „bushmeat" trade, which is illegal sale of wild animal meat, and by the destruction of rainforest.

Europäischer Naturfotograf des Jahres 2008  -  Oct 28, 2008
fotointern.ch,Der Preis geht dieses Jahr an den Briten David Maitland für sein aufwühlendes Bild “Bushmeat�. Ebenfalls am Naturfoto Festival in Lünen wurde Ingo Arndt aus

Europäischer Naturfotograf des Jahres 2008 und Fritz-Pölking-Preis ...  -  Oct 27, 2008
fotofenster.de,Mit seinem verstörenden Bild über die Zubereitung von "Bushmeat", so auch der Titel der Arbeit, konnte er sich gegen eine hochkarätige Konkurrenz

Reich und arm nebeneinander  -  Nov 4, 2008
Oberhessische Presse,An der Straße werden Yamwurzeln, Casvapflanzen, Bananen sowie „Bushmeat“ frisch aus dem Dschungel verkauft. Wir passieren eine Polizeikontrolle,

Krankheiten aus dem Koffer: Heiße Zeit für Zöllner  -  Nov 13, 2008
Die Presse,Fleisch aus Israel für die Beschneidungsfeier in Österreich, getrocknete Tintenfische aus Laos, Bushmeat aus Afrika - für die Zollfahnder am Flughafen

Moja s celou svou rodinou odplula do Afriky  -  Nov 9, 2008
Britské listy,Ty ohrožuje pÅ™edevším „bushmeat trade“, tedy nelegální obchod s masem divokých zvířat a niÄ?ení deÅ¡tných lesů. „PrávÄ› v Limbe, kde žijí gorilí sirotci,

Hunger for bushmeat unsustainable: report  -  Sep 26, 2008
The Southern Times,But the authors stress that banning bushmeat hunting and trade is not the solution. specific policies to monitor and protect endangered species while

Bushmeat trade "most significant" threat to Africa's wildlife says ...  -  Sep 24, 2008
Mongabay.comMaverick conservationist, Richard Leakey, writes that "commercial bushmeat hunting has become the most significant immediate threat to the future of

New Rules Advised for Hunting Gorillas, 'Bushmeat'  -  Sep 16, 2008
U.S. News & World Report,By LiveScience Staff, LiveScience Bushmeat, or wild-animal game, has long been a food source for people who live in African forests and hunt apes,

Food or slaughter? Bushmeat fuels wildlife debate  -  Sep 16, 2008
Reuters South Africa,Some campaigners want a total ban on bushmeat or at least on its commercial trade. This would allow local people to hunt only fast-breeding, non-endangered

Richard Leakey speaks about Bushmeat - The most significant ...  -  Sep 23, 2008
Wildlife Extra,Legalizing bushmeat hunting will not solve the food crisis. I am incredulous that the Centre of International Forestry Research (CIFOR) would suggest that

Bushmeat Ban Not the Answer  -  Sep 16, 2008
Discovery Channel16, 2008 -- The hunting of wild animals poses a threat to species' survival in many parts of the world, but an all-out ban on bushmeat hunting is not the

Africa's bushmeat trade increasing  -  Sep 20, 2008
United Press International20 (UPI) -- Increased bushmeat trade in central Africa's tropical forests poses a serious threat to the food supply for the region's poor inhabitants,

Possible Repercussions of Banning Bushmeat  -  Sep 18, 2008
ScienceBlogsThe report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), based in Bogor, Indonesia, suggests instead that the bushmeat trade should be

Legalise hunting of endangered species, says report  -  Sep 17, 2008
New Scientist (subscription),A controversial plan put forward this week argues that to save species from extinction, the hunting of endangered animals for bushmeat should not be banned.

Bristol Zoo Gardens Adopts Orphaned Lowland Gorilla  -  Sep 19, 2008
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News,Dr Bryan Carroll, deputy director at Bristol Zoo Gardens, is chairman of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria Bushmeat Working Group which organised

Bushmeat ban would have dire effects  -  Sep 17, 2008
Nature.com (subscription),Blanket bans on hunting bushmeat in Africa are "bound to fail" and could be harmful to wildlife conservation efforts, a new report says.

First photos of African 'unicorn' captured  -  Sep 10, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,Dr Noelle Kumpel, ZSL's Bushmeat and Forests Conservation Programme Manager, was relieved to see the species has survived despite a decade of civil conflict

Gorilla family shown on webcam  -  Sep 5, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,...forests are being exploited for timber. Opening up routes into the forest provides easier access for hunters who kill gorillas for bushmeat and trophies.

Bristol Zoo Gardens Installs Gorilla Webcam  -  Sep 8, 2008
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News,...being exploited for their timber, which opens up routes into the forest providing easier access to hunters who kill gorillas for bushmeat and trophies.

DNA database of offenders could help solve crimes, says former US ...  -  Sep 21, 2008
Irish Times,...probably while a hunter was butchering an infected chimp for bushmeat, explained bioinformatics expert Prof Paul Sharp from the University of Edinburgh.

Daddy Fresh, Azadus, Sound Sultan celebrate with Tu Face  -  Sep 22, 2008
Modern Ghana,After his light meal, the celebrant took to the dance floor where he was later joined, to the awe of the crowd, by Azadus and 'the bushmeat might catch the

The new women wildlife presenters  -  Sep 13, 2008
Times Online,...oil (which means destroying orang-utan habitats) or tropical hardwoods (as logging opens up ape habitats to bushmeat-hunters), retailers will respond.

British team capture first pictures of Africa's 'unicorn'  -  Sep 11, 2008
AFPDr Noelle Kumpel, ZSL's Bushmeat and Forests Conservation Programme Manager, said: "To have captured the first-ever photographs of such a charismatic

Gorillas better off in S. Africa zoo, says envoy  -  Sep 8, 2008
Malaysia Star,...denouncing poaching of the apes in the African continent which is closely linked to bushmeat trade and threatens an important component of biodiversity.

Nigeria, Cameroon Cooperate to Save Most Endangered Ape  -  Sep 5, 2008
Environment News ServiceThe participants agreed to reduce the bushmeat trade and illegal logging, strengthen field monitoring, increase community involvement and conservation

War and poaching threaten Congo’s gorillas  -  Aug 31, 2008
Taipei Times,A growing demand for bushmeat and other illegal products has led to massive and sustained attacks on the park’s wildlife. The hippo population of Lake

Two African nations team up to protect world's rarest ape  -  Sep 9, 2008
Plenty Magazine,Participating in the agreement were representatives of state parks from each country, who will now work to "reduce the bushmeat trade and illegal logging,

Our actions have consequences  -  Sep 8, 2008
Jackson Sun,Now, increased cutting of trees for lumber and the increasing popularity of "bushmeat" on restaurant menus have led to a reduction of the ape population by

Official Comment Count: 1003046  -  Sep 18, 2008
ScienceBlogsThe report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), based in Bogor, Indonesia, suggests instead that the bushmeat trade should be

Attacked by flies but what kind?  -  Aug 28, 2008
The Connexion,HIV arose from a mutation of a simian immune difficiency virus coming from African monkeys that were eaten as bushmeat. If there is going to be a bird flu

Cameroon and Nigeria team up to protect endangered gorilla  -  Sep 5, 2008
Grist Magazine,Gorilla gorilla diehli is threatened by illegal logging, agricultural conversion of its habitat, and poaching for the bushmeat trade.

英国科学家首次在野外æ‹?到é?žæ´²â€œç‹¬è§’å…½â€?  -  Sep 11, 2008
新�网,...伦敦动物学会布什米特与森林�护项目(Bushmeat

Gefährdete Tiere im Topf  -  Sep 16, 2008
sueddeutsche.de,Sie wollen den Handel mit dem so genannten Bushmeat ganz unterbinden, damit sich die Bestände erholen können. Die Verfasser des jüngsten Forschungsberichts

Za każdy kilometr cztery zÅ‚ote  -  Sep 14, 2008
Perspektywy,...„bushmeat� i wylądować na czyimś talerzu. Fundusze zebrane wczoraj pozwolą WWF na stworzenie patroli monitorujących te okolice. Jak zawsze było super,

La prohibición absoluta del comercio de carne de caza en Ã?frica ...  -  Sep 16, 2008
AgroInformación (Comunicado de prensa),El informe titulado: “Conservation and Use of Wildlife-Based Resources: The Bushmeat Crisis� (Conservación y utilización sostenible de recursos provenientes

Spaceruj i pomagaj - Ecco Walkathon w Warszawie  -  Sep 11, 2008
Wiadomosci 24,Cel: Walka z tzw. bushmeat'em, czyli zabijaniem rzadkich gatunków zwierząt dla ich mięsa. Wspomagając WWF przyczynimy się do powstania systemu monitorowania

7 wegen naar de apocalyps - 3 ziektes  -  Sep 19, 2008
Sargasso,Behoren de dierlijke dragers tot het zogenaamde bushmeat, dan is het gevaar misschien niet zo groot. Want die zijn we toch al aardig aan het uitroeien.

7 wegen naar de apocalyps - 1 de broeikas  -  Sep 5, 2008
Sargasso,De initiële overlevers van de mensheid zullen eerst al het resterende vee opvreten, daarna het bushmeat en het zeeleven en tenslotte elkaar.

英國科學家首次在野外æ‹?到é?žæ´²â€œç?¨è§’ç?¸â€?  -  Sep 11, 2008
新�網,...倫敦動物學會布什米特與森林�護項目(Bushmeat

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