Bushmeat Hunting Drives Biodiversity Declines in Central Africa
Monday, November 7, 2016 - 17:31
in Biology & Nature
Hunting has dramatically reduced wildlife biodiversity in forests near rural villages in the Central African nation of Gabon, a new Duke University-led study finds. By extrapolating their results from Gabon across forest landscapes in neighboring nations, the researchers conservatively estimate that similarly degraded wildlife communities are likely now found across 53 percent of Central Africa. […]