Bushmeat Hunting Driving Biodiversity Loss
A new study has found that hunting for the bushmeat trade has dramatically reduced wildlife biodiversity in the forests near rural villages in Gabon, Central Africa.
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A new study has found that hunting for the bushmeat trade has dramatically reduced wildlife biodiversity in the forests near rural villages in Gabon, Central Africa.
Deer are never far from the press in recent times; debated tirelessly and inspiring fierce devotion from people both sides of the cull or not to cull divide. Some seek to control deer, to cull them in aid of economic or environmental gains; others to preserve them for sport or out of sheer goodwill.
The removal of these animals from the ecosystem upsets the natural balance and leads to a loss of heavy-wooded large trees.
A combination of climate change and habitat loss caused a range wide decline of nearly 4% per year between 1985 and 2013.
A short video on how Dr Lynn Dick (Cambridge University) & Natural England are working to counter our declining bumblebee populations.
New research has assessed the ecological impact of returning Tasmanian devils to the mainland and the results show that doing so would improve Australia’s biodiversity.
A new study has revealed that shifting trade winds and ocean currents have resulted in a doubling of their population over the past 30 years.
The west coast population has increased by nine percent and the east coast population has increased by ten percent. These are the highest increases documented worldwide.
Using fossil records and extinction counts, the researchers compared a highly conservative estimate of current extinctions with a background rate twice as high as those widely used in previous analyses. This way, they brought the two estimates as close to each other as possible.
Widespread persecution by European settlers led to the downfall of this subspecies. The big cats were killed to protect the settlers and their livestock through hunting, trapping, poisoning and bounty programmes.