Reported that, on the market in the Middle East, non-state capital cities, is the protection of rare animals such as elephants, hippos and chimpanzees variety "game" are publicly traded. It is estimated that each year from the African jungle to hunt their prey bushmeat about 6 million tons the booming bushmeat business led to a large number of wild animals and even a sharp decline in the number of rare animals, and some even on the brink of extinction.
Spawned one of the important reasons to eat venison trend is the growing number of Africans from the countryside into the cities. Depends on the habits of the remote areas in the past, the new settlers from the countryside is also very easy to get from the original place of residence bushmeat. In addition, the exchange between the different ethnic groups to change the taboo of the diet of some animals, and more and more recognition of the value of the other ethnic preferences species.
On the other hand, the road to the remote tropical rainforest regions to accelerate bushmeat trading. Many logging companies rely on a lot of labor, and state-of-the-art equipment, road network extends to the inaccessible wildlife area, allowing easier access to wildlife. The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said in a report, logging companies often bushmeat as a free subsidy to feed the workers changed between wildlife and market these roads built for logging.
"Thinking of Africa," the news agency said, a sharp increase in bushmeat trading and regional conflicts have a great relationship. Bushmeat market in the city of the Congo (DRC), for example, bushmeat sales in wartime is to protect animals is five times the peacetime. Soldiers patrol the protected areas, many high-ranking officers are complicit in the illegal hunters hunting wild animals.
In addition, some of the African countries government corruption and weak law enforcement guide government policy of punishment for poachers more pale invalid. Wildlife trade monitoring network for a recent the Mozambique survey found that government officials and police are buying bushmeat.
With the increasing commercialization of illegal hunting, wildlife ecosystems in Africa faces enormous pressure. Native species overhunting led to the decline in the number of hunters will be transferred to other areas, which will expand the demise of wildlife area, eventually leading to the phenomenon has been described as "empty forest syndrome".
However, to solve the problem of the large number of poaching wild animals is not easy. Bushmeat for local people in the remote areas of the Central African States, provides 100% of the protein intake. In many areas, the rural population of up to 33% of the source of income from bushmeat trading.
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