• There should be an international consensus for action against species extinction.
  Wildlife conservation organizations have to work together and present a united front against species extinction.
• The United Nations has to fulfill its obligation to wildlife and eco-system conservation and protection by the formulation of an official organ mandated to monitor, address and take international action against the perpetration of the indiscriminate destruction of wildlife and eco-systems.
• There is an absolute need for legally binding and enforceable international laws protecting wildlife and eco-systems.
• Because of species extinction, wildlife and eco-systems can no longer be considered a national but a global heritage. We have to institute mechanisms to ensure that national wildlife custodians do not flaunt their obligations to wildlife and eco-system conservation. National wildlife custodians must ensure that there is long term community development around conservation areas. Every one has to ensure that he/she is neither a “silent perpetrator” nor an “active perpetrator” of the Bush meat crisis.
• State wildlife authorities, governments and the international community must work towards the formulation and enforcement of in-situ wildlife conservation, community wildlife conservation, eco-tourism and tourism industry in-situ community development policies.
• The time has come for the tourism industry to join the conservation struggle more actively. We propose that a 20% portion of their profits should focus on community development programs in their areas of operation.

The recent resolution by the European Union parliament in response to signatures collected by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA), to condemn the Bush meat trade has again illustrated the power of civic demand.

The silent participation and the complaisant attitudes of many, the failure by the international community to not only condemn, but also to formulate legislature protecting wildlife and habitats and the failure to prosecute the senseless massacre of wildlife have led to the escalation of the Genocide.

We can only stop the genocide by demanding the following:

• The formation of an official organ of the United Nations with the mandate to Monitor, address and take action against the indiscriminate and unsustainable utilization of wildlife and eco-system.
• The formation of legally binding and enforceable international laws protecting wildlife and eco-systems.
• The international and local prosecution of companies, organizations and individuals implicated in the silent/active perpetration of the wildlife and eco-system degradation.
• The sanctioning of state wildlife authorities/governments that flaunt their obligations to wildlife and habitat conservation.
• That our governments condemn wildlife authorities, states, companies and organizations that perpetrate the genocide of wildlife.

The commercialization of Bush meat verses luck of food and abject poverty as the cause for the escalation of this Crisis.
© Karl Ammann	© Karl Ammann

We have to make the perpetration of crimes against wildlife an internationally prosecutable offence. There isn’t, and cannot be, any justification for the current indiscriminate destruction of habitats and the massacre of wildlife perpetuated by the failure of the local wildlife custodians to address conservation as a priority!

The perpetrators have continued unchecked because of the absence of a united stand against their actions. How can we expect to stop the commercial exploitation of Wildlife resources with out mandate, international laws, prosecution and sanctions?

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