Hunting or Killing? Is hunting a moral or ethical practice in today’s society? Can we justify the killing of wild animals for food‚ clothing‚ or for sport. It has long been a fact of life that the human race has had to hunt in order to survive. But in this new age of technology were everything we need to survive can be found on a supermarket shelf‚ then why do we still hunt animals? It’s not out of necessity that many Americans continue to hunt‚ but rather the life experience and the respect
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Great Apes as Food This article talks about the love for great apes meat in Central Africa. Although some religions forbidden ape meat as food but others like to consume the meat and they actually prefer it from the other meats. There are many reasons why central Africans like Consuming great apes as food other than the taste. In Some parts of central Africa people believe that eating Apes as food would bring strength and power that these great apes possess. Medicine plays a role in encouraging
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“Road Construction and Conservation in the Congo Basin” A look inside the life‚ culture‚ and habitat of the CONGO. The Congo Basin is located in the continent of Africa‚ Central Africa. It is represented by the countries of democratic republic of Congo‚ Republic of Congo‚ Central Africa Republic‚ Cameroon Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. An area of many rivers‚ forest‚ savannas and swamps the Congo has many unique animals that reside there. According to (World Wildlife) “There are 10‚000 species
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Hunting chimpanzees for bushmeat is becoming more common because their meat is sought by nearby residents. Additionally‚ chimpanzees are becoming evermore threatened by deforestation. Often‚ the deforested land is used for farming or housing for locals (Chimpanzee 1). This is especially
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infected items. Monkeypox is a virus that African rodents carry‚ such as squirrels‚ mice and porcupines. This virus gives you a rash and bumps all over your body. Monkeys get Ebola from being around the humans in Africa. Humans get it from eating bushmeat.
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available resources and they are more vulnerable to predators. Although both the cutting down of trees and the bushmeat trade is illegal‚ both are still in major play. Especially in the local cities‚ pygmy hippo meat is popular since it is more palatable than its cousin‚ the common hippo. The hunters aren’t merciful either‚ they are said to kill any animal they see to sell it as bushmeat (Look). The combination of country conflict and illegal trade has caused increased decline of the species. Currently
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and B) are the SIVsmm found in the sooty mangabeys of the Tai forest‚ in western Ivory Coast. Bushmeat practice According to the natural transfer theory (also called ’Hunter Theory’ or ’Bushmeat Theory’)‚ the "simplest and most plausible explanation for the cross-species transmission"[7] of SIV or HIV (post mutation)‚ the virus was transmitted from an ape or monkey to a human when a hunter or bushmeat vendor/handler was bitten or cut while hunting or butchering the animal. The resulting exposure
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troops‚ which are headed by a dominant male and include a dozen or more females and young. They also gather in multi-male/multi-female groups that can include some 200 individuals. These colorful primates are threatened. They are often hunted as bushmeat‚ and many Africans consider them to be a delicacy. Mandrills are feeling the squeeze of spreading agriculture and human settlement—both are shrinking their rain forest homeland.
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trucks where the principal access routs had been dirt paths no wider that a jaguar"(Begley 23). When roads are built‚ it allows more people to get to the gorillas habitat and put them in danger‚ weather that is to cut down the forest‚ kill them for bushmeat‚ or even littering in their homes. Over the past decades‚ logging has opened forests‚ and have made it so that the gorillas habitat’s are now accessible to hunters (Begley 22). Logging and mining companies are the main reason for mountain gorillas
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Causes of recent declines in biodiversity The major causes of biodiversity decline are land use changes‚ pollution‚ changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations‚ changes in the nitrogen cycle and acid rain‚ climate alterations‚ and the introduction of exotic species‚ all coincident to human population growth. For rainforests‚ the primary factor is land conversion. Climate will probably change least in tropical regions‚ and nitrogen problems are not as important because growth in rainforests is usually
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