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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"bushmeat"”.
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Bats as Bushmeat in Ghana
… Africans alone harvest five million tons of bushmeat annually (Fa et al., 2002; Ntiamoa-Baidu, 1998). This massive industry raises concerns across disciplines: not only do epidemiologists fear for the transmission of zoonotic diseases (Daszak, 2000), but conservationists fear for the …
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An Analysis of Illegal Bushmeat Availability in Local Restaurants Located in Voi, Kenya
The illegal bushmeat harvest has been identified as a reason for declining wildlife populations throughout much of Africa. For many years the trade was thought to exist primarily in Western Africa. The illegal use of bushmeat in Eastern Africa, including Kenya, went undocumented and unstudied. In …
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The Effects of Human/Wildlife Conflict on the Potential for Community-Based Ecotourism in the Kasigau Region of Southeast Kenya
… in the Kasigau location of southeast Kenya: bushmeat utilization, community attitudes and wildlife abundance. Samples of meat purchased from butcheries and meat markets are identified to species using molecular analysis, community attitudes are ascertained via written social surveys and …
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Spatial distribution and intensity of snare poaching in the Boland region of South Africa: implications for optimising anti-poaching efforts
… sources of protein is fuelling the harvesting of bushmeat. In South Africa, illegal wire-snares are the most popular method of bushmeat harvesting. However, snare poaching is indiscriminate and inhumane, causing the death of many non-target species and suffering by all animals captured. The …
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Conserving widely distributed wildlife species in an African savanna: parks, cattle-grazing and community-managed areas
… declines. Working in an African savanna, where bushmeat hunting and cattle-grazing are considered the greatest threats to wildlife, this thesis combined three approaches to study the conservation ecology of widely distributed wildlife at three spatial scales (continent-wide; landscape; home …
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Fishing and hunting in the Amazon floodplain : linkages among biodiversity conservation, rural livelihoods and food security
… of people rely on wild meat (wild fish and bushmeat) for their livelihood and food security, but unsustainable harvesting is causing pan-tropic defaunation. In addition to the decline of prey populations, many harvest-dependent societies in these regions are witnessing major social and …
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A seasonal comparison of the gut microbiome of the Southern Lesser Galago Galago moholi (A.Smith 1836)
… activities such as urbanisation and the bushmeat trade increase the degree of contact humans have with non-human primates. Zoonotic pathogens have increased the risk of disease emergence significantly. Non-human primates are major reservoirs of zoonotic diseases. The close relatedness of …
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Conservation and ecology of nocturnal primates: night monkeys, galagos, pottos and angwantibos as case studies
… than previously thought within both the bushmeat and pet trades. I was also able to give an overview of the extent of international trade in the Neotropical nocturnal primates. Through my research and subsequent publications I have managed to create baselines for further studies and …
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Natural and anthropogenic influences on elephants and other ungulates in the Congo forest
… in elephant populations. It aggravated the bushmeat hunting of duikers whose populations also declined sharply.
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A camera trap assessment of factors influencing leopard (Panthera pardus) habitat use in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo
… increase in commercial logging and the itinerant bushmeat hunting in the peripheral area. It would be worth expanding the existing camera trap arrays to cover a greater spatial extent within NNNP and hence allow for a more detailed analysis of edge effects and to detect the potential impacts of …
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THE CORNERSTONE OF A CONSPIRACY: THE ROLE OF HUMAN-WILDLIFE PERCEPTIONS IN THE MASS DISBELIEF IN THE EBOLA VIRUS, NORTHERN SIERRA LEONE
… had shaped rural Sierra Leoneans reliance on ‘bushmeat’ after hearing how the closing of trade routes had led to reported widespread food insecurity in the country, but my questions quickly began to revolve around the all encompassing idea in Sierra Leone that the Ebola outbreak was fabricated. …
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Nutrient composition of foodstuffs available to wild lemurs living in the Analamazaotra Special Reserve, eastern Madagascar, and a survey of diets fed to captive black-and-white ruffed lemurs at United States zoological institutions
… agriculture, logging, and hunting of lemurs for bushmeat, are significant stresses on lemur populations. Conservation efforts for lemurs include Species Survival Plan® Programs (SSP) for some species. Diets for animals in zoological parks often are based on the nutrient requirements of domestic …
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The conservation status and dynamics of a protected African lion Panthera leo population in Kafue National Park, Zambia
… effect on prey biomass of ubiquitous illegal bushmeat hunting in Kafue. After using my occupancy results to stratify my study area, I tested the effectiveness and efficiency of two well-established survey methods, track counts and call-up surveys, by comparing the resulting density estimates …
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Lion population status and ecology in a seasonally-flooded wetland, the Okavango Delta
… could also be the effect of prey depletion from bushmeat harvesting along the Okavango's boundaries. As flooding can induce significant changes in landscape structure, I examined what effect this had on lion home range size at minimum and maximum flood extent. When floods were at their lowest, …
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Evolutionary Relationships Among Duiker Antelope (Bovidae: Cephalophinae)
<p>Duikers are a species rich subfamily of threatened African antelope whose recent origin poses a challenge to the molecular identification of taxa and estimation of their phylogeny. I test the ability of DNA barcodes to identify all taxa within this group. I then use mitochondrial and nuclear …
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Responses of Madagascar's Endemic Carnivores to Fragmentation, Hunting, and Exotic Carnivores Across the Masoala-Makira Landscape
The carnivores of Madagascar are likely the least studied of the world's carnivores, thus little is known about threats to their persistence. I provide the first long-term assessment of Madagascar's rainforest carnivore community, including: 1) how multiple forms of habitat degradation (i.e., …