29 days ago by Ed Rybicki

ProMED Mail this morning had a rather alarming item: “BUSHMEAT TRADE, DISEASE TRANSMISSION RISK”. They reported on a study, highlighted in a BBC report, of possible pathogens imported into the USA via bushmeat from Africa, confiscated at airports. This in turn derived from a PLoS One paper – “ Zoono ...

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30 days ago by Born Free USA

by Will Travers — Our thanks to Born Free USA for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on the Born Free USA Blog on January 12, 2012. Travers is chief executive officer of Born Free USA. Often I have written about the dangers, significantly traceable to human activities of va ...

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46 days ago by By RACHEL NUWER

Studies tease apart the intricacies of bush meat consumption in Central and West Africa, which may help guide conservation efforts in those regions.

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47 days ago by Clara B. Jones

1. In 2004, Jessie Young (a Creole woman living in a village ~NW of Belize City) & I published a paper in Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science on hunters’ (Belizean men’s) attitudes and behavior. Unless I am mistaken, this paper is available at no cost online at the journal’s website. 2. With a ...

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58 days ago by Jeremy Hance

Conservationists have often found that some cultural norms, religious beliefs, and taboos play a role in holding back traditional peoples from overusing their environment. Examples of such beliefs include days wherein one cannot hunt or fish, or certain species or regions that are off limits to expl ...

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59 days ago by liz.shaw

The decline of traditional cultural taboos in Madagascar is leading to unsustainable hunting of lemurs for bushmeat, according to a new study. The largest of the lemurs, the Endangered indri is a strictly protected species in Madagascar Published in the journal PLoS One, the study looked at the eati ...

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81 days ago by Rhett Butler

Conservationists shouldn't overlook the detrimental health impacts of shifting local populations away from subsistence bushmeat hunting, says a new study.

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88 days ago by Jeremy Hance

Rats are rarely thought of as heroes. In fact, in many parts of the world they are despised, while in others they serve largely as food. But, scientists are now discovering that many tropical forest rodents, including rats, serve as heroic seed dispersers, i.e. eating fruits and nuts, and carrying s ...

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88 days ago by Jeremy Hance

Rats are rarely thought of as heroes. In fact, in many parts of the world they are despised, while in others they serve largely as food. But, scientists are now discovering that many tropical forest rodents, including rats, serve as heroic seed dispersers, i.e. eating fruits and nuts, and carrying s ...

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90 days ago by Jeremy Hance

Warfare and poaching have decimated forest elephant populations across their range with even elephants in remote protected areas cut down finds a new study in PLoS ONE. Surveying forest elephant populations in the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers have found that ...

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