The bushmeat chain reaction

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Uploaded 18 Jun 2014 by Jarle Mjaasund

Year: 2014

From collection: The Environmental Crime Crisis

Author: Riccardo Pravettoni, GRID Arendal

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The illicit bushmeat trade involves a series of underlying socio-economic factors, but leads, with rising population densities, to local depletions of wildlife species, and increasingly inside protected areas.

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Tags: Biodiversity (245) , Food (160) , Food chain (13) , Hunting (13) , Wildlife conservation (10)

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