Study Finds that Hunting Threatens Animals with Extinction

in Animal News on October 24, 2016

The hunting of wildlife for bushmeat has become “a global crisis” that threatens to wipe out more than 300 species, or a quarter of all threatened terrestrial mammal species on Earth. According to Adam M. Roberts, CEO of Born Free USA, “The minute you start to monetize or commodify wildlife, you run the risk of wiping the animals out.”

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