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Entries for ' One Health'
May 19, 2023
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The June 2023 issue of National Geographic devotes 24 pages to the complex issue of bushmeat consumption in the Congo Basin, and highlights WCS initiatives that address the worrying threat of the soaring urban demand for wild protein.
Reporter Rene Ebersole and photographer Brent Stirton traveled to both Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo to provide insight into an already alarming ...
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March 29, 2022
Issue features more than a dozen studies looking at the conservation and socio-economic aspects of wild meat trade in Central Africa
WCS studies examine urban restaurants, governance, behavior change, and other aspects of trade and consumption
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A special issue of the African Journal of Ecology is dedicated to the wild meat trade that is rapidly emptying Africa’s forests of its wildlife. The issue con...
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February 15, 2020
A giant pangolin, the world’s most trafficked scaled mammal, was rescued and later cared for by our teams. Thanks to the collaboration between experienced pangolins carers from our Wildlife Health program teams in Congo, the Tikki Hywood Foundation and the Sangha Pangolin Project in Central African Republic, this species highly sensitive to stress, and generally dying a few hours or days from capture, was for once successfully reintroduced in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park...
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