As part of the celebrations for his 91st birthday next Saturday, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will be served a feast featuring five impala, two buffalo, two elephants, two sables, and one lion. However, Adam M. Roberts, CEO of Born Free USA and the Born Free Foundation, argues that any consumption of wild game meat will inevitably put further demand on hunters and poachers, driving threatened animals into increasingly risky situations. Discussing the difficulty in quantifying wild meat consumption around the world, Roberts explains, “Meat from wild, threatened species that is consumed domestically will not have to be accounted for [versus official tallies of exports].”
Link: Vice