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Tons of bushmeat smuggled into Paris, study finds
By MARIA CHENG and CHRISTINA OKELLO (AP) ? 2 hours ago
PARIS ? The traders sell an array of bushmeat: monkey carcasses, smoked anteater, even preserved porcupine.
But this isn't a roadside market in Africa ? it's the heart of Paris, where a new study has found more than five tons of bushmeat slips through the city's main airport each week.
Experts suspect similar amounts are arriving in other European hubs as well ? an illegal trade that is raising concerns about diseases ranging from monkeypox to Ebola, and is another twist in the continent's struggle to integrate a growing African immigrant population.
The research, the first time experts have documented how much bushmeat is smuggled into any European city, was published Friday in the journal Conservation Letters.
"Anecdotally we know it does happen ... But it is quite surprising the volumes that are coming through," said Marcus Rowcliffe, a research fellow of the Zoological Society of London and one of the study's authors...
Tons of bushmeat smuggled into Paris, study finds
By MARIA CHENG and CHRISTINA OKELLO (AP) ? 2 hours ago
PARIS ? The traders sell an array of bushmeat: monkey carcasses, smoked anteater, even preserved porcupine.
But this isn't a roadside market in Africa ? it's the heart of Paris, where a new study has found more than five tons of bushmeat slips through the city's main airport each week.
Experts suspect similar amounts are arriving in other European hubs as well ? an illegal trade that is raising concerns about diseases ranging from monkeypox to Ebola, and is another twist in the continent's struggle to integrate a growing African immigrant population.
The research, the first time experts have documented how much bushmeat is smuggled into any European city, was published Friday in the journal Conservation Letters.
"Anecdotally we know it does happen ... But it is quite surprising the volumes that are coming through," said Marcus Rowcliffe, a research fellow of the Zoological Society of London and one of the study's authors...