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New Report Says Blanket Ban on Bushmeat Trade in Central Africa Could Have Dire Consequences for the Region’s Poor
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YAOUNDE (16 September 2008) – A new report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB) and partners warns that an upsurge in hunting bushmeat—including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians — in tropical forests is unsustainable and that it poses serious threats to food security for poor inhabitants of forests in Africa, who rely largely on bushmeat for protein.
The authors of the report call on policymakers in the region to develop policies protecting endangered species, while allowing sustainable hunting of “common” game, since there is no clear substitute available if common wild meat sources were to be depleted.
CBD Report No. 33
Full Report: English [PDF, size 2.2MB] ; French [PDF, size 25 MB]
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Bush pigs, duikers, and monkeys for sale. Makokou market, Gabon (Photo by Nathalie van Vliet - December 2007) |
Local kids carry a monkey, Loa Loa village, Gabon (Photo by Meilinda Wan - January 2005) |
Skinned antelope for sale, Guinea (Photo by Terry Sunderland - April 2007) |
BaAka pygmie carries a duiker, Central African Republic (Photo by Marieke Sandker - March 2009) |
A local villager hangs an antelope, Cameroon (Photo by Edmond Dounias - 1998) |
Epassendje boy with cane rat, Gabon (Photo by Carol Colfer - May 2004)
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