How do you balance the need for biodiversity conservation and human health? For Christopher Golden, '05, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Harvard University Center for the Environment, that question is at the core of a paper he ...
Ecology
Nov 21, 2011
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The use of social media by West African vendors to promote the illegal sale of bushmeat should be regulated to help prevent the emergence of diseases transmitted from animals to humans, a new study suggests.
Ecology
Jun 13, 2023
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Grauer's gorilla, which is confined to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is now Critically Endangered, according to a study published October 19, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andrew Plumptre from Wildlife ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2016
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The trade in vultures and other raptors for traditional medicine and bushmeat is likely to be contributing to the serious declines of these birds in West and Central Africa. A new study, published in the scientific journal ...
Ecology
Aug 24, 2015
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Tanzania has many different and diverse wildlife populations spread across a network of protected areas extending over the whole country.
Ecology
Dec 13, 2012
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Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in Madagascar could fuel the spread of lemur parasites and the diseases they carry.
Ecology
Jan 23, 2013
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Animals like antelope, frogs and rodents may be tricky to catch, but they provide protein in places where traditional livestock are scarce. According to the authors of a new paper in Animal Frontiers, meat from wild animals ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2012
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As debates have raged on throughout the COVID-19 pandemic—from lockdowns, to mask mandates, to vaccinations—experts have sought to pinpoint the origins of the virus. Most research has centered on Wuhan, China, where the ...
Agriculture
Feb 14, 2022
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More than five tonnes of illegal bushmeat is being smuggled in personal luggage each week through one of Europe's busiest airports, reveals new research published in Conservation Letters today.
Ecology
Jun 18, 2010
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Cocoa farmers in West Africa are using bushmeat as a back-up source of food and income in times of hardship, according to new research.
Ecology
Nov 6, 2013
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