Solutions for Bushmeat

Bushmeat is a growing concern for anyone interested in wildlife conservation. A single market in Pompeya, on the margins of the Napo River in Ecuadorian Amazon, sold around 10 tonnes of bushmeat in a single month. 60% of the bushmeat sold animals were large mammals, the most charismatic animals around. A few years ago, troo...

Solutions for African Bushmeat Crisis

While African bushmeat was once considered a subsistence activity, logging and the expansion of cities and roads to previously impenetrable forests ha...

African Mammals Decline

A recent study shows that populations of large mammals such as zebra, buffalo and lion in the African national parks declined by an average of 59% between 19...

Snails vs Bushmeat

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN reports that people in many African countries eat bushmeat, which tends to be more readily available and cost l...

Solutions for Africa’s Bushmeat Crisis

The bushmeat crisis is a real problem in Africa, and the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is working in several countries to try to find solutions and solve th...

100 Heartbeats

The name “Hundred Heartbeat Club” was first used by E.O. Wilson in “Vanishing Before Our Eyes”, and refers to species that “literally have fewer than 100 hearts beating on our planet”.  Jeff Corwin’s new book, entitled “100 Heartbeats: Th...