Hunting By Humans Significantly Reduces Bird and Mammal Populations (IMAGE)

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Hunting By Humans Significantly Reduces Bird and Mammal Populations

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Seizure of illegally hunted animal carcasses in Cameroon. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 14, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Benítez-López at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "The impact of hunting on tropical mammal and bird populations."

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