Managing bushmeat hunting in Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo

Programme outcome: The IFRC 2010 support strategy and plan for the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Red Cross of DRC) was based on the National Society’s (NS) 20092013 Strategic Development Plan and was designed to help the NS provide vulnerable communities with life-saving first aid, clean water and sanitation, health and hygiene promotion, HIV/AIDS support, sexual and gender bas...

Bushmeat hunting, wildlife declines, and fish supply in West Africa.

The multibillion-dollar trade in bushmeat is among the most immediate threats to the persistence of tropical vertebrates, but our understanding of its underlying drivers and effects on human welfare is limited by a lack of empirical data. We used 30 years of data from Ghana to link mammal declines to the bushmeat trade and to spatial and temporal changes in the availability of fish. We show tha...

Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Henipavirus-related Sequences in Fruit Bat Bushmeat, Republic of Congo

Animals obtained for this study were euthanized under anesthesia with xylazine and ketamine by cardiac exsanguination. Tissue samples were extracted by using the NucleoSpin RNA II Kit (Macherey-Nagel, Düren, Germany); throat swab specimens were dissolved in 500 μL of phosphate-buffered saline and extracted by using the QIAamp Viral RNA Mini Kit (QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany). The same kit was utiliz...

Resource Wars and Conflict Ivory: The Impact of Civil Conflict on Elephants in the Democratic Republic of Congo - The Case of the Okapi Reserve

Human conflict generally has substantial negative impacts on wildlife and conservation. The recent civil war (1995-2006) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resulted in a significant loss of wildlife, including elephants, due to institutional collapse, lawlessness and unbridled exploitation of natural resources such as minerals, wood, ivory and bushmeat. We used data from distance samplin...