<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title><![CDATA[bushmeat news from mongabay.com]]></title>
<link>http://www.mongabay.com</link>
<description><![CDATA[bushmeat news.]]></description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2006 mongabay.com</copyright>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Does logging contribute to AIDS deaths in Africa?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging activities in tropical Africa may pose hidden health risks to wildlife and humans according to a veterinary pathobiologist speaking at a scientific conference in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-aids_wildlife.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-aids_wildlife.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[World's rarest gorilla gets its own forest reserve]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government of Cameroon has established the first sanctuary exclusively for the world's rarest type of ape: the Cross River gorilla, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which helped support the project.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-gorillas.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Screaming elephant-cousin threatened by logging]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A small screaming mammal that may be the closest living relative of the elephant is threatened by logging and bushmeat hunting in East Africa, according to a study published in the inaugural issue of the open access e-journal Tropical Conservation Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_yopp-Jorgensen.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_yopp-Jorgensen.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[16,306 species threatened with extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[16,306 of 41,415 species on the IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction, reports the World Conservation Union (IUCN).  The total number of known extinct species now stands at 785, while a further 65 are only found in captivity or in cultivation.  One in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70% of the world's assessed plants on the 2007 IUCN Red List are considered at risk.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0912-redlist.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0912-redlist.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Large mammals disappearing from Africa's parks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Large mammals are disappearing from Africa's national parks, warn researchers writing in the September 2007 issue of the African Journal of Ecology.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0831-africa.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0831-africa.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Emerging (disease) markets]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Instead of attacking wild birds for our new disease problems, a far more cost effective approach should focus on keeping wild animals separate in the places where they often commingle: in wildlife markets and international trade, according to wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a recent issue of the prestigious Journal of Wildlife Diseases.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0815-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0815-wcs.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Internet drives trafficking of endangered species]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It's true, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent Ed Newcomer, that the Internet has made wildlife crime easier, and easier to hide.  But it's also made it easier for wildlife law enforcement agents to pose as potential customers -- and to catch people.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0809-fws.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0809-fws.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Logging roads rapidly expanding in Congo rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging roads are rapidly expanding in the Congo rainforest, report researchers who have constructed the first satellite-based maps of road construction in Central Africa.  The authors say the work will help conservation agencies, governments, and scientists better understand how the expansion of logging is impacting the forest, its inhabitants, and global climate.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-congo.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Congo forest elephants declining from logging roads, illegal ivory]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fast-expanding logging roads in the Congo basin are becoming 'highways of death' for the fierce but elusive forest elephant, according to a new study published in the journal Public Library of Science. Logging roads both provide access to remote forest areas for ivory poachers and serve as conduits of advancing human settlement.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0402-elephants.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0402-elephants.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA['Bushmeat' link to SARS outbreak confirmed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Chinese scientists say they have found a genetic link between SARS in civet cats, a racoon-like animal eaten as a delicacy in China, and humans.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1123-sars.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1123-sars.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Logging resumes in Liberia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As former US president Bill Clinton arrives in Liberia to meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, it's time to take a look at the state of the forests in the country. While Liberia's brutal civil war delayed the commercial exploitation of its tropical forests during the 1990s, 'conflict timber' was a key source of revenue for warring factions. The harvesting of this wood, combined with collateral damage from military operations and wildlife poaching, took a heavy toll on Liberia's forests. With the end of the war, Liberia's new government--which took power at end of the war in 1998--immediately established forestry as a national priority and instituted a five-year tax holiday on timber industries. This policy, combined with the return of commercial interests to the country, repopulation, and reconstruction efforts, has put pressure on Liberia's remaining forest resources. Since the close of the 1990s, deforestation rates have increased by 17 percent, and primary forest cover in the country has fallen to just over 1.3 percent of the total land area (or 4.1 percent of the forest cover).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0716-liberia.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0716-liberia.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Bushmeat from African apes sold in American markets]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bushmeat from wild primates in Africa is ending up on plates in North America and western Europe according to an article published in the current issue of New Scientist.  Justin Brashares, a wildlife biologist at the University of California at Berkeley who carried out a survey of clandestine markets in seven major cities, says that the meat, which includes chimpanzee and gorilla parts, makes up nearly a third of the illegal international trade in bushmeat killed in Africa.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0706-bushmeat.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0706-bushmeat.html</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Roads tied to bushmeat hunting in Africa]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new study ties the presence of roads to bushmeat hunting in the Congo rainforest and also raises important questions on global conservation approaches. The study, published in the current edition of Conservation Biology, found roads and associated hunting pressure reduced the abundance of a number of mammal species including duikers, forest elephants, buffalo, red river hogs, lowland gorillas and carnivores.  The research suggests that even moderate hunting pressure can significantly affect the structure of mammal communities in central Africa.  The researchers, lead by William F. Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, raise an interesting point with considerably wider implications for global conservation efforts, arguing that "as a multinational conglomerate, Shell-Gabon?s interests in environmental management at Rabi... largely reflect their sensitivity to international opinion and pressures from consumers."  Drawing on their personal experiences in Africa and Latin America, the team writes "smaller corporations based in developing nations are sometimes less interested and often less capable of financially investing in environmental protection." This observation leads the researchers to ask, "As conservationists, do we pressure large, multinational corporations based in industrial nations to forego major projects in developing countries in an effort to limit environmental degradation, or do we favor such firms over smaller, national companies in the hope that they will be more sensitive to international pressures?" While their question us especially pertinent to Central Africa, it really applies to conservation on a worldwide scale.  Multinational corporations can be particularly sensitive to criticism on their environmental policy and, as a result, can actually serve as competent stewards of the environment is some cases.  Thus pressure exerted by green groups on large corporations may be an effective means for achieving conservation goals.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0509-gabon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0509-gabon.html</guid>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>
