Establishing knowledge of local communities regarding the potential health risks of illegal bushmeat hunting and its related practices is among the essential means to developing effective conservation and public healt...
Bushmeat is frequently consumed in households in the city of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Several studies in Africa show that this food is regularly consumed by rural and urban populations.This consu...
Biodiversity conservation in parks and protected areas in Africa in general and especially in Nigeria is seriously threatened by the explosion of commercial bushmeat hunting activities in buffer zone communities. Seve...
Based on strandings and captures,9 cetacean species,including 6 odontocetes and 3 mysticetes,are document-ed(photos and specimens)in Togo’s coastal waters(newly-recorded species marked with an asterisk):Antarc-tic mi...
Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(no.CXTDS2005-4);the Chinese Natural Scientific Foundation(no.30270206)for supporting this study financially.
Two surveys of opinions about wildlife conservation were carried out in Hunan Province,China,before and after the severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS)epidemic.Hunan is the northern neighbor of Guangdong Province,wh...