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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

Critter News

Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said. But the problem is the high demand for these products.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?” ” one.