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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Bush-Meat Ban Would Devastate Africa's Animals, Poor?


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A man holds the body of a moustached guenon killed for bush meat in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A blanket ban on hunting in tropical forests won't solve Africa's escalating bush meat crisis, a report warned in September 2008.

That's because a large percentage of Africans depend on the meat as their sole source of protein.

Photograph by Michael Nichols/NGS