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- Current TV Features Bushmeat, BCTF Director Dr. Heather E. Eves
A screenshot from part one of the Bushmeat series, featuring footage from an interview with Dr. Eves.BCTF Director Dr. Heather E. Eves was one of several experts consulted for two stories on bushmeat, now available on Current TV. In the first story, journalist Mara Schiavocampo travels to the ... - Two US women arrested for selling rare animal parts
Earlier this week, the US district court in Minnesota charged Pa Lor and Tia Lee Yang of selling products made from rare animals, such as elephants, leopards, leaf monkeys and weasels. Local Fish and Wildlife Service agent Patrick Lund told the Associated Press that his organisation had become increasingly concerned "about international trade in raw endangered wildlife ... - Monkey Business
Stanley Fish: Think AgainNew York TimesIn a case now pending in a federal court in Brooklyn, Mamie Manneh of Staten Island stands accused of having brought smoked bushmeat – known colloquially as monkey meat – into the United States without proper permits, in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.Ms. Manneh’s defense ... - Monkey Meat at Center of NYC Court Case (AP)
By TOM HAYSNEW YORK (AP) — From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat. Now, the tribal customs of Manneh and other West African immigrants have become the focus of an unusual criminal case charging her with meat smuggling, and touching on issues of ... - A Taste of Baboon and Monkey Meat, and Maybe of Prison, Too
By ELLEN BARRY, New York TimesIt takes strategic thinking to find monkey meat in New York. Best to avoid the word “monkey,” for one thing — start with something innocuous-sounding, like “dry meat,” or common, like “grass cutter,” a rodent similar to the guinea pig. Seek out the proprietors of tiny West African restaurants, or the ... - Brooklyn: Unlicensed Meat Imports Defended (New York Times)
By ELLEN BARRY, New York TimesA lawyer for a Staten Island woman charged with importing meat without proper licenses and mislabeling a shipment argued in Federal District Court yesterday that the charges should be dismissed because they impinge on the importer’s right to freedom of religion. The woman’s lawyer said the meat of African wild game had religious significance ... - Culture clash over monkey meat ends up in court
FRANK DONNELLYSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Monkeys are sacred to a Liberian native who emigrated to West Brighton more than two decades ago. Mamie Manneh and members of her church say eating primate parts -- known as bushmeat -- conforms with their religious beliefs and imbues them with the cunning and agile animal's spiritual power while also helping them "get closer to God." ... - At monkey meat trial, a lesson on wildlife
by Staten Island AdvanceThe tale of the Staten Island woman accused of smuggling 65 pieces of illegal smoked bushmeat into John F. Kennedy International Airport last year continues to take bizarre twists and turns as the case plays out in a Brooklyn courthouse. - Accused of smuggling exotic meats, Liberian asserts religious Freedom
By FRANK DONNELLY, Staten Island Advance STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. In a clash of cultures playing out in Brooklyn federal court, a Staten Island woman claims she has the right to eat monkey parts in keeping with her religious beliefs. That's hooey, counter prosecutors, who contend that Mamie Manneh Jefferson, of the West Brighton section, illegally imported pieces of protected ... - Making a case for 'sacred' meat
BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO. NewsdayDuring a search of a Staten Island garage last year, federal agents made a disturbing find: Among packages of smoked fish and clothing they discovered 33 pieces of African bushmeat, including the arm of a primate and pieces of a small rodent known as a cane rat. Now the garage owner, a Liberian immigrant named Mamie Jefferson, 39, finds herself a ... - Bushmeat rationale: It's sacred meal - Liberian woman already locked up for assault, moves to quash feds' illegal-import case
By FRANK DONNELLY ADVANCE STAFF WRITER STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.A West Brighton woman is serving a two-year state prison sentence for running over her husband's girl friend in a movie-theater parking lot last February. Now, the native of Liberia is trying to keep out of a federal lockup for allegedly importing primate (monkey) and other animal parts to America last year. Mamie Manneh ... - NY cracks down on illegal mystery meats
By Adam Goldman - AP Business Writer. NEW YORKWhen a food safety inspector walked into a market in Queens, he noticed the store had an interesting special posted on its front window: 12 beefy armadillos. In Brooklyn, inspectors found 15 pounds of iguana meat at a West Indian market and 200 pounds of cow lungs for sale at another market. At a West African grocery in Manhattan, the ... - Inspectors Stake Out Smuggled Animals
By MARGARET EBRAHIM - The Associated Press. ATLANTAWildlife inspector Bryan Landry can spot threats everywhere at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. A backpack carried off a flight from Nigeria contains plastic bags of meat from the bush that could harbor the lethal Ebola virus. Those salted duck eggs from South Korea, a delicacy not easily found here, could carry the ... - Exotic animals bringing health risks with them: Freedom of Information Act request reveals holes in import system
AP - WASHINGTONExotic animals captured in the wild are streaming across the U.S. border by the millions with little or no screening for disease, leaving Americans vulnerable to a virulent outbreak that could rival a terrorist act. Demand for such wildlife is booming as parents try to get their kids the latest pets fancied by Hollywood stars and zoos and research scientists seek to ... - Smuggled Bushmeat in North America Raises Health, Security Concerns
In Africa, the unsustainable bushmeat trade is wiping out wildlife including gorillas, chimpanzees, antelopes and many other species. More than one million tonnes of bushmeat is taken from Central Africa each year - that's the equivalent of more than 9 BILLION quarter pound hamburgers!Recent reports have shown that bushmeat is being illegally imported into North America as well. BCTF ...
Bushmeat for sale in Yaounde, Cameroon. Clockwise from top-left: civet, dwarf crocodile, tortoises, monkey, and duiker (smoked and dried). The crocodile and tortoises were still alive at the time of the photo. © Andrew Tobiason /BCTF.
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Related Articles:- Phase III Preview: Bushmeat and Wildlife Trade in the USA
While it may seem to many that the bushmeat crisis is something that happens “over there,” growing evidence shows that bushmeat is also in our own backyard. As BCTF and its members address global bushmeat/ wildlife trade issues in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world, we must also take action on the illegal importation of bushmeat and wildlife products into our own ... - Conservation aCross Cultures: Busch Gardens and Limbe Wildlife Centre
A new program connects Adventure Camps at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay to students at Limbe Wildlife Centre in Cameroon and gorilla researchers at Mbeli Bai in Congo. MORE... - U.S. Department of State Leads Effort to Address Wildlife Trade
BCTF continues to engage with the U.S. State Department, which has undertaken several efforts to address the bushmeat crisis and illegal wildlife trade around the world. MORE... - Linking Zoos and Primate Sanctuaries through Education
Columbus Zoo Develops a book for Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary and the Children of CongoBy Rebecca Rose, Field Conservation Director, Columbus ZooIn collaboration with Les Amies des Bonobos du Congo (The Friends of Bonobos of Congo), the Columbus Zoo is developing a children’s book entitled Protegez la faune et la flore precieuses du Congo ... - BCTF at the AZA Annual Conference
On 15 September 2005, BCTF Program Coordinator Natalie Bailey presented "Tools for Tackling the Bushmeat Crisis: The Bushmeat IMAP and Collaboration for Conservation" at the AZA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. AZA President Beth Stevens opened this well-attended session, which highlighted BCTF's achievements to date and featured the Bushmeat IMAP. - BCTF staff take part in Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leadership Program
The Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders (EWCL) program is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of International Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. It brings together twenty young conservationists with exceptional leadership potential for capacity building in campaign development and leadership skills. Participants ... - Theater as a vehicle for Bushmeat Education and Awareness
Theatrical presentations are an age-old means for passing on knowledge, but performance education is still effective today, even for conservation awareness. Here are a few efforts making use of this traditional art form to teach about bushmeat, in Africa and North America.Bushmeat Roving Theater Education at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo The ... - Great Ape Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2005
On 23 June 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, held a hearing on H.R. 2693, the Great Ape Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2005. BCTF helped several members prepare testimony for this hearing by providing great ape population statistics, threat maps, and evidence of decline among species and subspecies in Africa, as well ... - Broken Screens: The Regulation of Live Animal Imports in the United States
Defenders of WildlifeBroken Screens is Defenders of Wildlife's major new report on the failures of the regulatory system for live, wild animal imports in the United States. Released on August 1, 2007, the report is an unprecedented examination of the low level of protection given by the lax U.S. system from the risks that non-native animal species pose to our environment and to ... - One man's bushmeat is another man's calamity
Author: Kwaku Adu-GyamfiBushmeat which is considered by most West –Africans as a favorite delicacy, has become a contraband item on the list of the U.S custom agents. It is also seen by the wildlife conservative as a threat to declining animal species. The epidemiologists think the consumption of bushmeat could endanger one’s health. But the West-African immigrant has a ... - Monkey Meat Trial Turns Academic With Wildlife Talk
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, New York SunThe testimony in the courtroom in Brooklyn where a woman is accused of smuggling monkey meat seems more suited for an academic conference than a criminal prosecution. The topic under discussion yesterday was the conservation of African wildlife. "Let's look at the bigger problem of primate decline," a defense lawyer, Jan Rostal, said. The ... - Bushmeat surveyed in Western cities: Illegally hunted animals turn up in markets from New York to London
by EMMA MARRIS, NatureBaboons, duiker antelopes and cane rats are available by the pound in markets in major cities in North America and Europe, a scientist reported at the Society for Conservation Biology meeting in San Jose, California, this week. While the meat showing up in cities from New York to London represent just a sliver of the illegal bushmeat trade, it highlights the ... - TAKE ACTION NOW! The Bushmeat Promise is Launched
After over a year of planning and review, BCTF has launched a campaign that encourages individuals around the world to make a personal commitment to solving the bushmeat crisis: the Bushmeat Promise. The Bushmeat Promise is structured to raise awareness, facilitate ... - US as one of the world's leading ivory markets
Care for the Wild International shows the U.S. as one of the leading ivory markets that fails to comply with both CITES regulations and its own domestic laws. There is more worked ivory for sale in the United States than anywhere else in the world, except for China. Large quantities of worked ivory from China are illegally imported to the U.S. by individuals and through the ...
- Phase III Preview: Bushmeat and Wildlife Trade in the USA
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