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Archive for
March, 2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Starving Coast residents turn to wild animals
The Standard online Edition
By Joseph Masha and Patrick Muriungi
Starving residents of Ganze constituency in Kilifi District have resorted to eating bush meat.
The bush meat business is thriving in market centres in Bamba, Malindi and Kilifi. Mr Kipkelong Kikwai of Kenya Wildlife Service, Gede office, said the most affected areas are Muryachakwe, Ndigiria, Jila and Midiona in Bamba Division.
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Tags: BEAN, Bushmeat trade, hunting, Kenya, Kilifi, starving residents, Wildlife
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Bushmeat hunting in Tanzania
mongabay.com
March 23, 2009
Bushmeat hunting constitutes the most immediate threat to wildlife populations in the Udzungwa Mountains of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot in Tanzania. A new study, published in Tropical Conservation Science assesses the impact of hunting by comparing densities of mammalian species between the little hunted West Kilombero Scarp Forest Reserve, the medium-hunted Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve and the intensively hunted New Dabaga Ulangambi Forest Reserve.
Conducting surveys of these conservation areas for the 22 species of mammal known to inhabit the region, Elmer Topp-Jørgensen and colleagues recorded 20 species in West Kilombero Scarp Forest Reserve, 17 in Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, and 12 in New Dabaga Ulangambi Forest Reserve. They found large species — larger than 40 kg (90 pounds) — to be the most affected.
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Tags: BEAN, Bushmeat hunting, Bushmeat trade, hunting, poaching, Tanzania, Wildlife
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
The New Vision
Publication date: Sunday, 22nd March, 2009. Uganda
By Gerald Tenywa
While policemen are meant to protect citizens and their property, Kasese policemen have been accused of hiring out their guns to poachers in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Recently, authorities at the park arrested eight poachers and recovered a gun hired from a policeman attached to Bwera Police post in Kasese district. Read More
Tags: Bushmeat trade, hunting, poachers, poaching, police gun, Uganda, Wildlife
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Cracking Down on Bushmeat
Geneticists are using the building blocks of life to combat a horrific illegal trade.
 HTH Students interviewing Lazarus Saruni, a park warden in Tanzania, for their documentary. Gorilla. Duiker. Mandrill. The six fingernail-sized pieces of dried, smoked meat ready to be analyzed on the warped table in an impromptu lab in the Cameroonian jungle could belong to any, or none, of these animals. That’s what Sarah Burgess-Herbert, a biologist at the Zoological Society of San Diego, California is here to find out. Using minimal equipment, Burgess-Herbert is testing whether she can extract DNA sequences, or bits of genetic information called barcodes, from these samples confiscated by Cameroon’s Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife. Then she’ll try to identify their origin. It’s a process that’s easily done in a traditional laboratory, but it’s a challenging feat in this remote locale, where sterile space, supplies, and equipment can be hard to come by.
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Sudan Tribune
Monday 16 March 2009 03:30.
By Philip Thon Aleu
 S. Sudan: Poachers arrested with bushmeat from Jonglei Park Four men have been arrested for illegally gunning down 10 wild animals in Jonglei park, officials said.Wildlife commanding officer Abraham Rech paraded the suspects with animals’ remains before reporters on Saturday in Bor Town, accusing them of accelerating extinction of reedbuck, buffalo and toupee Tiang. They denied any wrongdoing.
The men, whose leader was identified as Deng,…. Read more..
Tags: Bushmeat trade, Jonglei, poaching, snares, Southern Sudan, Wildlife
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
See the Award winning documentary on Bushmeat ‘Students of Consequence’ produced by the High Tech High (HTH) students to demonstrate the impact students can have on global conservation and to raise awareness of the African bushmeat trade.
 DNA barcoding method for Bushmeat The highly innovative conservation forensics students developed a simple technique of identifying bushmeat using DNA barcoding. They hope to bring this technology to East Africa where it is urgently needed to help in prosecution of bushmeat cases and in the monitoring of the illegal bushmeat trade. HTH is working closely with the USFWS MENTOR Fellowship program and will host a DNA barcoding workshops for the fellows, students and wildlife officials in Mweka, Tanzania in June this year.
Follow this link to watch the Video
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
The eight USWFS MENTOR Fellows presented their individual abstracts at the last Society for Conservation Biology – Africa Section Conference, held on 28-30 January 2009 at the University of Ghana, in Accra. The Abstracts from Symposium on “The Unsustainable Bushmeat Trade in Eastern Africa” by the Fellows focused on their bushmeat field assessments which they conducted in Kenya, Southern Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda between April and May last year. Two Fellows from each four country presented their findings on different Key protected ecosystems in their respective countries and jointly gave a national overview on the Bushmeat situations in their countries.
Click here to read the Bushmeat in eastern Africa Abstract.
 Lowaeli Damalu from Tanzania Presenting. Photo: Damalu  Vincent Opyene from Uganda. Photo: Damalu  Evanson Kariuki from Kenya. Photo: Damalu  SCB Africa Section Regional Conference, Accra. Participants group photo. Photo: Damalu
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