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January 09, 2016

Measuring Africa's unsustainable hunting on land - by sea
New York NY (SPX) Jan 08, 2016
Scientists hoping to help stem the rate of unsustainable hunting in West and Central Africa have developed two monitoring indicators based in part on methods used to track populations trends of organisms in an entirely different ecosystem: the sea. Specifically, researchers have built upon approaches used for decades to monitor exploitation levels in the world's commercial fisheries, and on methods to track populations, to invent two indicators that will help wildlife managers monitor hunting leve ... read more

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