O interzicere totala a vanatorii animalelor pentru carnea lor ar fi un dezastru pentru oamenii care traiesc in Africa Centrala, potrivit unui raport din partea Centrului international de cercetare a padurilor. Interdictia trebuie sa fie legalizata si monitorizata, sustin cercetatorii. Altfel, o mare parte dintre speciile de animale salbatice, precum elefantii si gorilele, vor disparea in numai 50 de ani, informeaza BBC News. Carnea de vanat este foarte importanta pentru multi oameni din Africa Centrala datorita beneficiilor nutritionale pe care le ofera. Insa ea vine la un pret mare.

CIFOR- En un nuevo informe del Centro de Investigación Forestal Internacional (CIFOR), la Secretaría del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB) y colaboradores, se advierte que el aumento de la caza de animales silvestres —incluidos mamíferos, aves, reptiles y anfibios—en los bosques tropicales es insostenible y plantea una grave amenaza para la seguridad alimentaria de los habitantes pobres de los bosques de África, que dependen mucho de la carne de caza para obtener proteínas. Los autores del informe exhortan a las autoridades de la región a formular políticas de protección de las especies amenazadas, y permitir al mismo tiempo la caza sostenible de animales “comunes” de caza, puesto que no hay ningún sustituto claro disponible si se agotaran las fuentes de carne de animales silvestres comunes.

The debate over bushmeat, meat from wild animals like gorillas, elephants, and antelope in Central Africa, just got more complicated. While some environmentalists have argued that a strict hunting ban is the only way to save endangered animals, a new report from the non-profit Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) argues that a blanket hunting ban would help neither the animals nor the people who depend on them for food.

Bangui – Africká divoká zví?ata jsou ohrožena vyhynutím v d?sledku neregulovaného lovu. Ovšem pokud se jejich lov zakáže, m?že to mít ni?ivé následky pro obyvatele st?ední Afriky. O tomto dilematu a debat?, která se rozproudila kolem, informuje britský zpravodajský server BBC News. Centrum pro mezinárodní výzkum lesnictví (CIFOR) ve zpráv? citované agenturou Reuters uvádí, že ?ešením této situace by mohlo být ponechání možnosti lovu. Musel by ovšem být p?ísn? regulován a kontrolován.

“If current levels of hunting persist in central Africa, the most vulnerable species will become extinct in the near future,” cautions Nathalie Van Vliet, a researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Indonesia. The problem is, she adds, that “if the people that currently rely on bushmeat as a source of protein in central Africa had to rely on livestock, we would see the same catastrophe that is destroying the Amazon Basin: deforestation for pasture land and livestock raising.”

In fact, there is no simple solution to this problem.

On the other hand, humans have needs too, and bushmeat currently provides up to 80 percent of the protein and fat needed in rural diets in Central Africa, a region that is rife with poverty, according to a newly released report by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and partners. “People that eat bushmeat or sell bushmeat to pay for medicines or school fees of their children, should not be presented as ‘criminals,'” said Nathalie Van Vliet, an associate expert for CIFOR in Cameroon.

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Commercial killing of rainforest wildlife is putting biodiversity at risk and reducing sources of protein for rural populations, warns a new report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB). The report — which assessed the sustainability of bushmeat hunting — estimates that more than a million tons of bushmeat are harvested from Central Africa each year, an amount equivalent of almost four million head of cattle. It notes that while bushmeat provides up to 80 percent of the protein and fat needed in rural diets in Central Africa, policy makers pay little heed to managing the resource. As such, wildlife is being rapidly depleted in parts of the region both by local consumers who rely on game meat for protein and commercial hunters who sell to urban markets domestically and abroad.

A new report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB) and partners warns that an upsurge in hunting bushmeat—including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians — in tropical forests is unsustainable and that it poses serious threats to food security for poor inhabitants of forests in Africa, who rely largely on bushmeat for protein.