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	<title>Bushmeat-free Eastern Africa Network</title>
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		<title>BEAN Press Release: Experts Agree Bushmeat a Major Issue in Eastern Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 7th &#38; 8th December 2009, 34 experts representing 22  different conservation organizations, development organizations and government agencies from Kenya, Tanzania, Southern Sudan, and Uganda assembled in Kampala, Uganda to discuss bushmeat (the illegal and unsustainable hunting of wildlife for meat and income). The participants shared information on challenges, ongoing solutions and future needs to address [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=772</link>
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		<title>Elephants, Lions Snared Every Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elephants, Lions Snared Every Week New Vision Gerald Tenywa 9 September 2009 Kampala,Uganda EACH week, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has to rescue an elephant or lion from a wire snare.The snares, set up by poachers, are fixed on fences or trees to trap the animals. According to Sam Mwandha, UWA&#8217;s director of conservation, poaching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=766</link>
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		<title>Bushmeat Socioeconomics in Uganda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A Working Paper by William Olupot, Alastair J. McNeilage and Andrew J. Plumptre Summary Unsustainable hunting of wildlife for bushmeat is a threat to sustainability of long-term benefits. This is at least apparent for Uganda which underwent a period of breakdown of law and order during the mid 1970s to early 1980s. The breakdown led [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=748</link>
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		<title>Latest BEAN Fact Sheets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to link to the latest BEAN Fact Sheets]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=737</link>
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		<title>Uganda: Bushmeat impounded in US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found in suitcases at Newark Airport: 19 pounds of bushmeat Saturday, May 09, 2009 BY TOMAS DINGES Star-Ledger Staff The screen of a Newark Liberty International Airport X-ray machine displayed red glowing images, tell-tale signs of a curious but surprisingly common luggage item. Bushmeat. Nineteen pounds of organic material, the meat of antelope and cane [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=637</link>
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		<title>Kenya Bushmeat Symposium &#8217;09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is our pleasure to invite you to the upcoming Kenya Bushmeat symposium 2009 to be held at the East African Wildlife Society, Nairobi on 20th May, 2009.  The symposium will begin at 9:00 am and end at 16:30 pm. Please visit the Bushmeat symposium web page below for more information and updates. Kenya Bushmeat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=529</link>
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		<title>Butchery of Africa’s wildlife heritage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The EastAfrican By RUPI MANGAT Posted Friday, April 10 2009 at 23:19 Everyday, thousands of wild animals get caught in snares across the continent to feed a rising appetite for wild meat. War-torn countries like the Democratic Republic of Conago are going into the last frontiers and wiping out the few surviving great apes for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=564</link>
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		<title>Does Tanzania have a Bushmeat Crisis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;.. we have a serious bushmeat problem in some regions of the country, particularly in Kagera, Kigoma, Mara and Rukwa. Research around Serengeti shows that 52,000 to 60,000 people participate in hunting within protected areas there&#8230;&#8221; Click on the images below to read an analytical piece on illegal bushmeat in Tanzania. The article is co-authored [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=506</link>
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		<title>Bushmeat hotspot gets a boost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenya signs its first REDD deal to conserve forests mongabay.com April 16, 2009 Kenya has signed its first carbon deal to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Yesterday San Francisco-based Wildlife Works Carbon and Kenya Forest Service (KFS) announced a plan to protect the 80,000-acre Rukinga forest reserve in southeastern Kenya. The project will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=501</link>
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		<title>Community project help curb poaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ThisDay Friday, 04 April 2009 FEATURE: SGR funded community development projects help curb poaching LUCAS LIGANGA Serengeti &#8220;..The Natta sunflower project is among a number of projects created by the SGR in communities neighbouring the game reserve in Serengeti District, Mara Region, aimed at making the beneficiaries lessen dependence on bush meat trade, a malpractice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bushmeatnetwork.org/?p=472</link>
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