Henry Osadolor

Domestication and Breeding of Cane-Rat for Controlling Indiscriminate Bush-Burning

This project seeks to advocate against indiscriminate bush burning to kill wildlife for meat. In the alternative, project will promote the breeding of the Great Cane-Rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), more popularly and commonly called ‘grasscutter’ (GC) in Nigeria.

The goals of the project are three-fold:

• To discourage bush-burning as a traditional practice for harvesting wildlife;
• To create alternative self-reliant incentives for and to use local people as advocates against bush-burning;
• To explore the economic potential of grasscutter breeding while, at the same time, taking away the social
and environmental consequences associated with the quest for the animal.

For more information contact cencomdev@skannet.com.ng