BCA is dedicated to the fight against the continuing slaughter of nonhumans for the bushmeat trade in those regions of Africa currently being logged.

Be Careful Africa

The Bushmeat Crisis Africa (BCA) website is dedicated to inform and warn the public about the bushmeat catastrophe we are currently facing in Africa. Visit this website monthly for recent updates & related links; become educated and involved in whichever manner possible as it concerns us, and your future.

This photograph (right) depicts the following:

• The atrocities against Wildlife are committed on a massive scale;
  
• The trade is carried out openly;
  The indiscriminate slaughter of Wildlife continues;
  In spite of decades of conservation efforts, the massacres continue openly;
  
• The wildlife custodians have either accepted this extermination, have no laws and or policies against such violation of animal right and or cannot enforce these laws/ policies;
  
• That for some reason the local communities do not value Wildlife conservation;
  
• That the laws against the traffic in endangered species are not sufficient to stop the Bushmeat Crisis, because they do not address the consumption of the wildlife with in the towns and cities;
  
• That there is an urgent need for decisive measures against the perpetration of these crimes;
  
• In order to understand the reasons for the escalation and in order to stop the Bushmeat Crisis it is imperative that every one has to answer the following questions.
  
• Why are the local communities that were once the guardians of Wildlife set out to exterminate the last reserve of wildlife and along with that their very own identity?
  
• Where are the local Wildlife custodians when all this is happening?
  
• How can this be happening on such a massive scale, openly and yet the Bushmeat Crisis has been extensively addressed locally and internationally?
  
• The local tourist industry has the sole right to deriving economic benefits from the Wildlife resource. What is their role in the Wildlife conservation struggle and what should be their obligation to the local communities that are not allowed to economically utilize wildlife and other available natural resources because of the need for wildlife and habitat conservation?
  
• Where are the local and international justice systems while all this is happening?
  
• Why isn’t any one being prosecuted for these crimes?
  
• Whose obligation is it to take action against these crimes?
  
• What should be the most appropriate course of action taken?
  
• Can these crimes be stopped by the current Wildlife policies that demand the local communities to stop utilization of their natural resources in favour of Wildlife conservation with out viable economic alternatives?
  
• If Wildlife is not depicted as a source of long term community development what other reason do the local communities have to conserve Wildlife?
  
• Is Wildlife a property and thus the sole responsibility/concern of the local Wildlife custodians?
  
• Is extinction a local or international loss?
  
• Is Wildlife a local or global heritage?
  
• Can the failure by the local Wildlife custodians to the fulfilment of their obligation to Wildlife conservation and protection be accepted/ over looked by the international community?
  
• Should these perpetrators continue to masquerade as worthy members of the international community?
  
• Is international isolation/sanction of these perpetrators too extremist or even ridiculous?
  
• Can condemnation, solving the signs of the problem (treating of victims, saving orphans, breeding programs, etc) ever be sufficient to stop the Bushmeat Crisis?