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Monday, July 05, 2010

Bushmeat trade threatens Pygmies' existence

Mbuti pygmy men carrying hunting nets and spears as they await the day's hunt outside the town of Epulu, Congo. The pygmies' traditional practice of hunting bushmeat has become a commercial endeavour, staged not for subsistence, but to feed growing regional markets.

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  1. Of related interst is

    http://socialistbanner.blogspot.com/2008/01/forestry-is-for-profits-not-people.html

    http://mailstrom.blogspot.com/2006/08/reality-tv-becomes-too-real.html

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