Sentences with word «bushmeat»

The illegal bushmeat trade stands out as the most severe and prevalent threat facing lions and many other wildlife species in Africa's protected areas.

Bodmer and his colleague Pablo Puertas of the Wildlife Conservation Society studied the impact of bushmeat hunting in Peru.

The team found that the number of nest sites has fallen drastically, especially close to towns, where demand for bushmeat spurs hunting.

The index case in the DRC is believed to have been a pregnant woman from Ikanamongo Village in the north of the country, who prepared bushmeat hunted by her husband.

A retrovirus that naturally infects many nonhuman primate species can easily jump the species barrier to humans and does so frequently among bushmeat hunters in Africa, according to a study published in the 19 March issue of The Lancet.

Although protected by law, gorillas are highly prized as bushmeat due to their large size and because they are easily tracked and killed as they move in groups on the ground in their small home ranges.

But beyond the human tragedy, the war has also taken its toll on the DRC's wildlife as a result of insecurity, heightened illegal bushmeat trade and increased deforestation.

The problem is, she adds, that «if the people that currently rely on bushmeat as a source of protein in central Africa had to rely on livestock, we would see the same catastrophe that is destroying the Amazon Basin: deforestation for pasture land and livestock raising.»

Larger species are typically targeted by bushmeat hunters first and are also the least able to bear hunting offtakes [12 — 14].

Each year, rural peoples consume some 2.2 billion pounds (one million metric tons) of so - called bushmeat from wildlife, the equivalent of four million cattle; the flesh accounts for 80 percent of the protein and fat in their diet.

HIV crossed the species barrier from SIV many generations ago in Africa from eating infected bushmeat.

Collared peccaries are a good source of sustainable bushmeat, according to new research.

Hundreds of mammals can't reproduce fast enough to keep pace with global commercial bushmeat trade

«How can we use DNA barcoding to combat the African bushmeat trade?»

This global bushmeat hunting crisis is a fundamentally distressing problem to address because it is intimately tied to human development challenges such as food insecurity, emergent disease risks and land - use changes [7].

These critters would be the best candidates for a sustainable bushmeat harvest, the researchers say.

One such worker approached a local bushmeat processor and sought to strike a deal to purchase the scales.

It's that they've been wiped out — turned into bushmeat.

Since the war, armed miners have hunted bushmeat including gorillas, but the presence of militia has complicated assessments of the gorilla population.

In 2010, based on a tally of bushmeat seized in traveler's luggage at Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport, researchers concluded that 5 tons arrive in France each week.

It turned out that the large carnivores were competing with humans for bushmeat like gazelles, says Ripple, an ecologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

With one million tons of bushmeat taken from African forests every year, the already endangered gorilla population — a primary victim of the trade — is in dire straits.

Rather, it is the commercial hunters with high - powered rifles and motorized vehicles who have built up a bustling — and highly profitable — international bushmeat trade.

Local hunting camps were common and a network of motorcycle trails is used for commercial bushmeat transport as well as accessing small scale mining areas.

It was also reported that within the past three years some armed groups had undertaken systematic bushmeat hunting and export to the north as well as to Bangui to generate revenue.

bushmeat Wild mammals eaten by people, including not only cats, Chinese bamboo rats, squirrels, badgers and civets but also nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, chimps and gorillas.

For more information, go to the group's Web site, High Tech High African Bushmeat Expedition, and read the expedition journal.

However, in Africa, Ebola may be spread as a result of handling bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food) and contact with infected bats.

Bonobo are bushmeat throughout much of their range.

In this increasingly human - dominated world — with its increasingly sharkless seas, its temperate forests nibbled bare by unstalked deer, its jungles silenced by bushmeat snares — it may well be that the rarest thing in nature these days is abundance.

Odigha has also helped establish projects that give rainforest communities alternative protein sources, reducing reliance on endangered bushmeat while increasing incomes through economic opportunities that don't deplete natural resources.

While local populations may rely on the flesh of gorillas and other wild animals for subsistence, bushmeat also has been exploited for commercial purposes through illegal hunting.

According to a report released earlier this year by INTERPOL and UNEP, deforestation, civil war, and the rampant bushmeat trade could cause gorillas in the Congo Basin to go extinct in the next 10 - 15 years.

Our taste for «aquatic bushmeat» is killing the sea.

«It has been a gold rush for logging gangs and bushmeat hunters to do as much as they can before the government gets organised and puts a...

Habitat changes, financial hardships, and the illegal bushmeat trade are thought to be responsible for the dwindling populations.

Much of their decline is due to human expansion into their habitat, as well as illegal poaching for bushmeat.

From lingering pollution to feeding soldiers on bushmeat, war can be tough on the environment.

It occured by humans eating infected bushmeat.

Portela, Juhn and their team examined timber, firewood, water and game hunted in tropical forests, known as bushmeat and set the monetary value of the natural resources based on the asset.

The gorillas and other primates, in turn, pose a threat to humans, who often contract the virus by handling the dead animals or eating bushmeat.

The consumption of bushmeat in Guinea may possibly serve as the transmission point from wildlife to human populations for the disease.

Currently listed as endangered, due to the illegal bushmeat trade and habitat destruction, chimp populations have declined to 175,000 - 300,000 from one million at the turn of the 20th century.

The decline is primarily a result of habitat destruction, bushmeat hunting and illegal capture for the pet trade, said CU Boulder Professor Michelle Sauther, co-author of study.

So simple and delicious with meat of any type but especially with chicken, bushmeat and goat meat.

Our contributor, Ekele from Agbor, Delta State has told us so many stories of her favorite «grandmama soup» so imagine the joy when she decided to teach us how to make it in the Chop4Naija kitchen... Ingredients Palm fruit concentrate (banga extract) Meat (Traditionally, eletu «bushmeat»...

«The preventive measures to be taken against the spread of the disease include; avoiding close contact with infected people; avoiding consumption of bushmeat and dead animals; cooking of meat and meat product thoroughly before eating and washing hands with soap and running water frequently and thoroughly.»

«However, besides changes in climate and habitat and threats from illegal hunting, bushmeat trade and forest and peatland fires, the major conservation issue facing Bornean carnivores is the lack of awareness on the gravity of the problem,» Mathai adds.

Since a military coup ousted the president in March, loggers have been stripping the country's forests and killing its animals for bushmeat.