You are here
BBC News by Mark Doyle March 23, 2015
Kabala, Sierra Leone- Scientists believe bushmeat is the origin of the current Ebola outbreak. A year ago, Sierra Leone put a ban on bushmeat - but is it working? Bats are known carriers of the Ebola virus - this hunter was pictured last year
I linked up with a group of traditional hunters who were demonstrating how the Ebola-inspired ban on bushmeat hunting in Sierra Leone isn't working.
The ban came into force last year.
The Minister for Agriculture, Joseph Sam Sesay, confirmed to me that the ban was still in place and said it was broadly working.
But in the Wara Wara mountain range, the bushmeat hunters I met were obviously active.
Read complete story.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31985826
Recent Comments