Bushmeat Free East Africa Network (BEAN)
The Bushmeat-free Eastern Africa Network (BEAN) is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional network of stakeholders who work collaboratively to raise awareness, share information, and leverage resources to build local partnerships to implement grassroots solutions that directly address bushmeat exploitation problems affecting protected and surrounding areas in Eastern Africa. (We define the bushmeat trade as the illegal, over-hunting of wildlife for meat and income.) BEAN emerged from the USFWS MENTOR Fellowship Program, a funded cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service through Wildlife Without Borders- Africa program to the College of African Wildlife Management - Mweka, Tanzania and the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group , a coalition of U.S.-based conservation NGOs with field programs in Africa including African Wildlife Foundation, Conservation International, the Jane Goodall Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Resou
