UK Bushmeat Working Group

The group is open to all representatives of key UK Government departments, the timber and other relevant industries, conservation and development NGOs and other national or international bodies and individuals with an interest in bushmeat issues. These include development agencies, conservation organisations, charities bringing relief and aid to tropical forest countries, human rights organisations, academic departments and training centres, and commercial, industrial and trade organisations, amongst others.

The UKBWG’s specific mandate is, with reference to trade in bushmeat in the context of development, conservation and sustainable livelihoods, to assist the exchange of information, to improve understanding, to build consensus through dialogue and debate and to disseminate the results as appropriate among its members and more widely through links to other organisations both within the UK and abroad.

The UKBWG was established in 1999 under the UK Tropical Forest Forum, an independent association created in 1990 in response to the growing concern within Britain for the future of tropical forests. In 2006, with funding from DEFRA , ZSL assumed responsibility for facilitating and administering the UKBWG, convening meetings and disseminating information to its members.

Agenda and minutes of UK Bushmeat Working Group meetings

• Directions to ZSL meeting rooms (3.1 MB)

Policy reports

• Report to CBD Bushmeat Liaison Group on livelihood alternatives to bushmeat (2011) (1.2 MB)

• Report to Secretariat of CBD on the bushmeat crisis (2008) (2.2 MB)

• Assessment of recent bushmeat research and recommendations to HMG (2007) (670 KB)

• POSTnote briefing for parliamentarians on bushmeat trade (2005) (123 KB)

Relevant ZSL meetings

• Bushmeat, fisheries and livelihoods linkages: June 2009
• Timber and bushmeat: January 2007
• Bushmeat and livelihoods (with ODI): September 2004
• UK Bushmeat Campaign conference: May 2002