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Animals News tagged with bushmeat

Bushmeat Consumption Soars as Forest Cover Declines
Animals  (tags: animals, bushmeat, killing, wildlife, protection, habitat, environment, AnimalWelfare, wildanimals )

Cher
- 38 days ago - panda.org
New analytical techniques have revealed that the scale of bushmeat trade in Central Africa may be much larger than originally thought, according to a study published today by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.
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Gorilla Poaching Greater Threat Than Previously Believed
Animals  (tags: animals, gorillas, killed, bushmeat, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 65 days ago - fauna-flora.org
The BBC has announced that up to two gorillas are killed and sold for bush meat each week in just one area of the Republic of Congo. The gorillas in question are Western lowland gorillas, which are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List
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300 Gorillas Killed Every Year for Bushmeat in Southern Congo
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, gorillas, killed, bushmeat, environment, habitat, protection, killing, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 69 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
In the face of a burgeoning market for bush meat in central Africa, Endangered Species International conducted over a year long undercover study at every major market in Congo's second largest city, Pointe Noire. The aim was to discover which animals
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Scale of Gorilla Poaching Exposed
Animals  (tags: animals, gorillas, bushmeat, Congo, poaching, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 72 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
An undercover investigation has found that up to two gorillas are killed and sold as bushmeat each week in Kouilou, a region of the Republic of Congo.
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DNA Barcodes Of Bushmeat Published
Animals  (tags: animals, killing, bushmeat, DNA barcodes, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, AnimalWelfare )

Cher
- 81 days ago - redorbit.com
Leather handbags and chunks of red meat: when wildlife specialists find these items in shipping containers, luggage, or local markets, they can now use newly published genetic sequences known as "DNA barcodes" to pinpoint the species of origin.
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Bloodhounds the Latest Weapon Against Ivory and Bushmeat Poachers
Animals  (tags: bloodhounds, tracking, wildlife, bushmeat, ivory poachers, destruction, crimes )

Simone
- 85 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Slobbering, panting and blinking in the dawn light, the latest weapon in the fight against poachers emerged from the belly of a Kenya Airways jumbo jet. Packed in two wooden crates, Pension and Drastic, two six-year-old British bloodhounds, got their
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IUCN Study of Elephant Meat Trade -- Consulting Opportunity
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, study, bushmeat, elephants )

Cher
- 85 days ago - animalblawg.wordpress.com
an opportunity to lead a study for the IUCN Species Survival Commission on the elephant bushmeat issue in Central Africa. Note the looming application deadline.Call for Applications - Deadline 4 September 2009
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Endangered Lemurs: Slaughtered, Smoked and Sold to Restaurants
Animals  (tags: animals, lemurs, slaughtered, bushmeat, environment, AnimalWelfare, killing, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 96 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Madagascar is famous for its lemurs. But poachers on the island are hunting and killing the lemurs for about 50 cents each. The endangered lemurs are then smoked and sold as delicacies to restaurant owners who are ordering the "killing of the animals."
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Pennant's Red Colobus, Procolobus Pennantii Pennantii
Animals  (tags: habitat, conservation, highly endangered, bushmeat, Colobus monkeys, Bioko Island )

Raffi
- 132 days ago - primate-sg.org
Found only in the southwestern corner of Bioko Island, Pennant's red colobus has lost nearly half its total population to uncontrolled bushmeat hunting in the past twenty years. The endangered Pennant�s red colobus monkey Procolobus pennantii
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Take Action Against the Bushmeat Trade--Watch the Video and Show Your Support for Great Apes ! TAKE ACTION !
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Cher
- 153 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Please sign our petition urging your senators to support legislation that would increase enforcement of the laws against and further prohibit the hunting of endangered species, and discourage irresponsible logging and other destructive activities in
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Bushmeat
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife, bushmeat, killing, wildanimals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 185 days ago - wspa.ca
The bushmeat trade - the killing of wild animals for food - is one of the biggest threats to the welfare and survival of wildlife today.
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Gorilla, Elephant and Chimp Meat Found in Huge Haul of Bushmeat Seized in Cameroon
Animals  (tags: animals, bushmeat, seized, arrested, poachers, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 200 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Authorities in southeast Cameroon have seized more than 1,000 kgs of illegal bush meat as well as 30 guns, and arrested 15 wildlife poachers in an unprecedented police operation.
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WHAT IS THE BUSHMEAT TRADE?
Animals  (tags: animals, bushmeat, killing, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 210 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
The killing of wild animals for their meat is known as the 'bushmeat trade'. In the past, bushmeat was largely a subsistence (hand to mouth) activity, and hunters took just enough to satisfy their families' needs.
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Caring For Chimps
Animals  (tags: animals, chimps, bushmeat, orphans, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 222 days ago - tinyurl.com
Just four months old and weighing less than 3kg (6½lbs), Mayos (right) is a baby chimpanzee. So young, her teeth have only just come through and her hands and feet are still soft and pink. She should be clinging to her mother in the forest, too small to
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Congo's Chimps Threatened By Bushmeat Trade
Animals  (tags: animals, chimps, bushmeat, Congo, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, habitat, protection, wildanimals )

Cher
- 223 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
Cleve Hicks gives account of central African wilderness under imminent threat of destruction by rapidly-emerging commercial bushmeat trade sweeping across Democratic Republic of the Congo, describes struggle to save orphaned chimpanzees from torture,
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