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	Illegal Bush Meat Utilisation and Trade
		Not only is bush meat now utilised by a variety of different ethnic groups in the study’s urban and rural survey areas, but also by rural people living in a broad spectrum of localities with different primary land uses and wildlife resource bases.
		Bush meat hunting ‘for the pot’ is, however, still critically important, and accounts for most of the supply in the Kenya, Zimbabwe and Botswana survey areas.
		Bush meat off-take for such species is increasingly likely to be unsustainable because of their reduced ability to sustain unregulated hunting pressure.
	www.traffic.org /bushmeat/illegaltrade.html (1749 words)

	TRAFFIC: COP11 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bush meat is not purely a tropical forest-related phenomenon, but is Africa-wide and indeed global: To date, most research on this topic in Africa has been carried out in the lowland forest areas of West and Central Africa.
		Bush meat is regarded as one of the most beneficial wildlife resources available to local communities: Throughout the eastern and southern African region, bush meat is utilized by a wide range of rural and urban communities comprising varied ethnic groups, socio-economic backgrounds and levels of access to wildlife resources.
		Bush meat is crucial as a source of cheap protein for malnourished people throughout Africa: Whilst wildlife in prime fertile areas have long since been replaced by agricultural crops, less productive areas in the semi-arid region of east and southern Africa are increasingly being settled by an ever-growing human population.
	www.traffic.org.cob-web.org:8888 /cop11/newsroom/bushmeat.html (2031 words)

	Lean future for bush meat
		The use of and trade in bush meat is believed to be one of the greatest direct causes of the decline of wild animal populations in many parts of Africa.
		Bush meat affects a wide range of communities, from traditional hunter/ gatherers, rural farming and herding communities, as well as urban centres in the region.
		For example, bush meat was found to be much cheaper than domestic meat in six of the seven countries surveyed, with bush meat being 75% cheaper than domestic meat in Zimbabwe.
	www.traffic.org /bushmeat (933 words)

	NEWS (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bush meat is regarded by local communities as being one of the most beneficial wildlife resources available to them.
		As such, bush meat is used on a first-come-first-serve basis, and sadly follows the all too frequent route of the tragedy of the commons.
		Bush meat trade in the region is closely linked with other commerce such as charcoal or illegal alcoholic brew, and in many cases follows the same trade routes.
	www.traffic.org.cob-web.org:8888 /briefings/bushmeat.html (1615 words)

	Bush Meat Use Depleting African Wildlife As Part Of Struggle To Cope With Drought And Famine
		Washington, DC - The use of and trade in bush meat is believed to be one of the greatest direct causes of the decline of wild animal populations in many parts of Africa.
		However, bush meat is also a valuable source of cheap protein and cash income for many human populations struggling for survival amidst poverty and frequent famine.
		Bush meat affects a wide range of communities, from traditional hunter/gatherers, rural farming and herding communities, to urban centers in the region.
	www.ecoworld.com /Home/articles2.cfm?TID=43 (649 words)

	The Expanding African Bush Meat Trade
		Demand for bush meat is driven by the desire for protein, not necessarily the animal source of the protein -- the popularity for which varies from market to market.
		The expanding urban and rural demand for bush meat is driven by robust population growth in these sub-Sahara countries.
		The availability of bush meat is made possible by the logging industry whose road construction opens stretches of rainforest to hunters and settlers.
	www.mongabay.com /08bushmeat.htm (294 words)

	NEWS
		In fact bush meat utilization is a significant conservation, economic and cultural issue in the non-forested areas of eastern and southern Africa.
		In the eastern and southern Africa regions, inter-continental trade is largely restricted to legally ranched Ostrich and some crocodile meat formally entering the European Union via Belgium, and a limited illegal trade in bush meat being transported by West and Central Africans visiting relatives residing in Europe.
		Specific objectives of the study included documenting the parameters of legal and illegal utilization of wild meat, the economic value of wild meat to rural communities, and the impact of harvest on protected areas and species valued as a source of meat.
	www.traffic.org /briefings/bushmeat.html (1615 words)

	BUSH MEAT FIGURES STATISTICS DISEASE UK BRITAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At least 11,600 tons of illegal bush meat, including monkey, rat, bat, gorilla, camel and elephant, were smuggled into Britain last year, exposing cattle to a range of infectious diseases, including foot and mouth.
		The extent of the illegal trade in meat from Africa, Asia and the Middle East is revealed in an internal government report, which says that the problem is far worse than had been thought.
		Almost all of the meat, which is bound for street markets and ethnic restaurants, is hidden in passengers' suitcases and goes undetected by airport security.
	www.sovereignty.org.uk /features/footnmouth/bushmeat1.html (697 words)

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		This, combined with the research data available on the quantities of bush meat consumed, constitutes overwhelming evidence that the bush meat trade is one of the the biggest, if not the biggest, primate conservation issues facing Africa today.
		According to the bush meat traders in the Cameroon, their parliament two years ago officially abandoned a six-month season closed to hunting.
		National Geographic relegated a bush meat piece to their Earth Almanac column, and then postponed it for several months after one picture they planned to use supposedly clashed with a chimpanzee-linked story that ran in Decemer 1995.
	www.animalpeoplenews.org /bushmeat.html (1415 words)

	THE CENTRAL AFRICAN BUSH MEAT CRISIS: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		We are talking about the tons of bush meat daily reaching the urban centres where the elite is prepared to pay two to three times as much for certain bush meat cuts than they would have to pay for beef or pork.
		The growing captive audience for bush meat in the cities, combined with the improved transport infrastructure - mostly new logging roads - is responsible for a large segment of the unsustainable demand characteristics which has led to the bush meat crisis.
		If we can use the bush meat issue to stimulate a massive public outcry, demanding and assisting with better governance in the countries concerned, the ultimate beneficiaries will not just be the great apes, the elephants and other creatures but the average citizen of these nations and their future generations.
	karlammann.com /personal-bushmeat-perspective.html (1098 words)

	The Bush Files
		George Bush Sr., retired Gen Norman Schwarzkopf, and former Vice President Dan Quayle are members of the hunting group Safari Club International and are assisting that group's efforts to persuade the government of Botswana to allow lift a ban on trophy hunting of endangered lions.
		When Bush was campaigning, he characterized himself as a "different kind of Republican." Most assumed he meant more centrist, but in fact Bush "is governing as a conventional conservative whose ideology is to the right" of any GOP president in recent memory, says Al From.
		Bush has enraged America's allies by reneging on the Kyoto treaty and his own promises to reduce CO2 emissions, and by abandoning the fragile Korean peace efforts just as they were gaining ground.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2001/04/bushfiles10.html (1376 words)

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		Imports of wild meat, including body parts of primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees, have increased dramatically as a result of the commercial hunting of up to 71 species.
		Bush meat, some of it from rare species, is regularly smuggled into Britain in commercial quantities and can be found on sale in areas of London with African communities, including Hackney and Brixton, where chimpanzee and gorilla meat may be bought for Â£300 per kilogram.
		The Washington-based Bush Meat Crisis Task Force estimates up to five million tons of wild animals are being "harvested" in the Congo Basin every year - the equivalent of 10 million cattle.
	www.rainforestportal.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=57652 (945 words)

	CNN.com - Nature - Africa's appetite for wild animals increases - August 2, 2000
		The illegal killing of wildlife for meat — the bush meat trade — may be the primary reason for this decline, according to a report released today by the wildlife monitoring organization TRAFFIC, finds.
		In six of the seven countries surveyed, bush meat was substantially cheaper than domestic meat.
		People rely on bush meat the most during periods of drought or famine, the report found.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/NATURE/08/02/bushmeat.enn/index.html (842 words)

	William Holden Wildlife Foundation: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Africa, natural land is often referred to as "the bush." Thus wildlife and the meat derived from it is referred to as "bush meat." This term applies to all wildlife species, including many of those that are threatened and endangered.
		These species are used for meat, including elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, other primates, forest antelope, bush pig, porcupine, monitor lizards and various other species.
		At the conclusion of that meeting the Bush Meat Crisis Task Force was born.
	www.whwf.org /bushmeatcrisis.htm (1553 words)

	Bush-Meat Trade Breeds New HIV
		They say that deforestation and the trade in bush meat are creating the ideal conditions for new diseases to emerge, as people have ever closer contact with exotic animals that harbour novel pathogens.
		He thinks official studies of bush meat sold in markets account for only 40 per cent of the total bush meat eaten in the country.
		The trade in exotic farmed meat also appears to have sparked an unusual outbreak of a common human parasite called Trichinella.
	www.rense.com /general56/mement.htm (644 words)

	Ape meat?
		The corresponding infrastructure has allowed the bush meattrade to go commercial and, as a consequence, entire gorilla and chimppopulations are eaten into extinction, at a rate of thousands of animals a year.
		This, combined with the research dataavilable on the quantities of bush meat consumed, constitutes overwhelmingevidence that the bush meat trade is one of the the biggest, if not thebiggest, primate conservation issue facing Africa today.
		The issue being: "The increasing commercialisation of the bush meat trade and its impact on chimpanzees, bonobo and gorilla populations".
	pubpages.unh.edu /~jel/meat.html (1527 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Bush meat 'destroying African species' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One of the main causes of falling animal populations in much of Africa is the trade in bush meat, conservationists believe.
		Rob Barnett found that in many areas bush meat was the only viable source of meat protein, with domestic supplies prohibitively expensive and largely unavailable.
		Traffic says one way to help to make the bush meat trade sustainable is to transfer wildlife ownership to landholders and local communities, formalising land tenure in legislation, to prompt an interest in investment in sustainable management.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/864506.stm (614 words)

	Bushmeat Project; Karl Ammann Talk on Bushmeat Crisis
		Ammann has made several subsequent trips to the region to investigate the bush meat trade, its impact on wildlife in general, and on chimpanzees and gorillas in particular.
		He discovered a tradition of consuming bush meat, although for many tribal groupings there was a taboo on eating great apes.
		And it is probably only a matter of time before the increased demand for bush meat leads to protected areas being used as the last remaining sources of a guaranteed supply.
	bushmeat.net /karl.htm (3104 words)

	Bush Meat -- In These Times
		The practice of hunting so-called bush meat is centuries-old in sub-Saharan Africa, but rising populations, more lethal weapons and intensified logging have increased pressure on animal populations—bringing many species to the verge of extinction.
		Eating bush meat, they say, is a cherished part of West African life—and an important source of protein for forest-dwellers and other rural people.
		With so large a hunger for bush meat, West Africans are not easily persuaded that animal protection is in their best interest—giving rise to the need for enforcement of hunting bans.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/629 (1408 words)

	CNN - Gorillas are endangered prey in Central African forests - Feb. 21, 1997
		The meat, known as bush meat, is destined for markets in cities and towns where consumers pay more for it than beef or pork.
		Hunters also use logging trucks to carry meat out of the forests, and some sell their kills to logging workers and their families in company towns.
		Residents in the towns say they have no choice but to eat the bush meat because pork and beef are not available.
	edition.cnn.com /EARTH/9702/21/bushmeat (509 words)

	"Bush Meat" Crisis Needs Urgent Action, Group Warns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Conservationists say illegal commercial hunting of African wildlife for sale as "bush meat" has reached alarming levels and immediate action is needed to address the problem before it's too late to save some seriously threatened species.
		"The illegal, commercial bush meat trade is the most significant current threat to wildlife populations in Africa," said Michael Hutchins, director of conservation science for the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and chair of the task force's Steering Committee.
		Bush meat was once the main source of protein in the diet of families in West Africa, but this has declined because many wildlife populations have been seriously depleted by hunting.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/05/0522_bushmeat.html (815 words)

	The New News \| CEO Puppet of Meat Bush Partakes of Mean-Spirited Moving Images
		CEO Puppet of Meat George Bush's moving pictures also oracle of the weakening of the Patriot Act, so named to discredit any Puppet of Meat who disagrees with said Act, showing the traitorous Puppet of Meat for the non-patriot they truly are.
		The conservative Puppets of Meat are trying to point out the failings of Liberal Puppet of Meat Kerry because he refused to offer an apology for their misunderstanding of comments he made.
		This is standard practice among the leading conservative Puppets of Meat who have found that their conservative meat Puppet followers are unquestioning automatons who do not formulate opinions of their own but all use the same collective arguments given to them by the radio meat intermediaries.
	www.noapologiespress.com /newnews/meatpuppets033004-1.html (426 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- After 'red-meat night,' Bush must offer agenda
		But neither the battering of Kerry nor the impassioned defenses of Bush's record will matter if the president does not use his speech today to lay out a positive agenda for a second term.
		It is to the president's advantage that his campaign strategists understand that and say Bush's speech will contrast favorably with Kerry's acceptance speech in Boston.
		Bush hopes to trump biography with substance, perhaps even unveiling new elements of his agenda.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20040902-9999-1n2assess.html (878 words)

	Wild meat imports raise concern
		But even as the government intensifies efforts to curb illegal bush meat, smuggling of the illicit meat is rising, federal officials said.
		Immigrants who subsisted largely on bush meat and used it in cultural traditions want "a touch of home" when they move to the United States, said Sheila Einsweiler, chief of law enforcement for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
		As many as 5 million tons of bush meat are extracted from the basin each year, according to a report from the Zoological Society of London.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /health/153130_bushmeat19.html (882 words)

	Militia to shoot bush meat poachers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bush meat is a billion-dollar industry that has surpassed deforestation as the most immediate threat to endangered African wildlife, National Geographic reported.
		In the Congo Basin alone, more than a million metric tons of bush meat (an amount equal to four million cattle) are harvested from the shrinking forests every year, more than six times the maximum sustainable rate, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
		Beyond the threat to wildlife, the bush-meat crisis has the potential to be a human tragedy of immense proportions, since rural Africans get as much as 60 percent of their protein from wild animals, said National Geographic.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=30100 (531 words)

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