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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 10 months ago“The pigeon trade isn’t driven by hungry islanders looking for cheap meat, according to the scientist. Instead, pigeon proved to the most expensive meat on the island – nine times costlier than chicken. ‘People often think that forest meat is consumed by poor people who have to hunt in the forest to survive,’ Stirnemann said. ‘But across the world patterns…are emerging that rich people are driving wildlife trade. They are often unaware of the impacts they are having since they often do not enter the forest.’ According to the study the richest 10 percent of Samoans ate nearly half of the killed pigeons on the island. The total trade is worth less than £100,000.”
http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?qs=27c4e9195da7c3e4e9ed9a8d07e67ed804118950212be13717e090cd28e0b160c7461a92229db565d58bab3864242ffaCaught in the crossfire: little dodo nears extinctionIllegal pigeon hunting across Samoa is risking the extinction of the country’s national bird: the little dodo or manumea. Will this little-known island pigeon suffer the same fate as its namesake?
