Category: findings | Date: Mar 26 2009 | By: bushmeateastafrica

Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe has been called the “Indiana Jones of epidemiology.” He’s outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering new, deadly viruses when they first emerge - passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in central Africa - and stopping them before they infect millions of people.

……..He also delivers a very soulful soliloquy on the problem of bush meat, and how it cannot be blamed on the hunters, who are just trying to find something to eat….. Read more..

From AC360° Blog

Posted: 03:16 PM ET
Program Note: CNN’s award-winning Planet in Peril examines the conflict between growing populations and natural resources. Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe was featured in the 2008 Planet in Peril: Battle Lines and showed us how he intends to outwit pandemics by discovering new, deadly viruses when they first emerge

Technorati : AIDS, Bushmeat, CNN, HIV, Nathan Wolfe, Planet in Peril, conservation, hunters

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Category: findings | Date: Mar 10 2009 | By: bushmeateastafrica

This is exactly what we have been fighting for here in Kenya. But do our Parliamenterains listen? Aren’t they too busy playing politics to give damn about what happens to our wildlife heritage? Here is something we can learn from Malaysia…

The New Straits Time Online

March 9, 2009

KUALA LUMPUR

Heavier penalties, including a maximum fine of RM 500,000, will be slapped upon wildlife poachers and traders when amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 are approved in June.

The amendments include raising fines by between 10 and 30 times the current fines and imprisonment of up to 10 years.Natural Resources and Environment Ministry secretary-general Datuk Zoal Azha Yusof said the amendments would be tabled in the next session of Parliament.

This is good news for non-governmental organisations such as the Malaysian Nature Society, TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, Wildlife Conservation Society and WWF Malaysia, which have been calling for amendments for many years. Read More..

It takes a lot of effort and resources to arrest a poacher, but once taken to court, they get very small fines and non-custodial sentences that cannot deter them from going back to poaching.

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Category: findings | Date: Mar 03 2009 | By: bushmeateastafrica

The illegal bushmeat trade is not just an African problem.

Bushmeat trade poses UK health threat

meatinfo.co.uk

Published: (26-02-2009)

Rising food prices and deepening poverty has increased the illegal global trade of bushmeat, threatening wildlife and posing a health risk for UK consumers.

According to the latest figures, some 7,500 tonnes of illegal meat products enter Britain every year. Some of this meat is bushmeat from wild animals, which have been snared by African poachers and smuggled into the UK disguised as beef. Read more..

Technorati : Health risk, UK, bushmeat trade

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