Price Elasticity of Bushmeat Demand in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem: Insights for Managing the Bushmeat Trade [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Rural households across the tropics rely on bushmeat hunting to fulfill their subsistence and cash income needs. As human populations grow, and urban market demand drives commercial trade, hunting is often unsustainable, compromising community long-term ...
Solomon Zena Walelign +4 more
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Examining the international bushmeat traffic in Belgium: A threat to conservation and public health [PDF]
One Health, 2023 The carriage of bushmeat into the European Union is an infringement of EU Animal Health and Wildlife Trade legislation and poses a threat to biodiversity and public health.
Anne-Lise Chaber +9 more
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Seasonal bushmeat hunger in the Congo basin
EcoHealth, 2017 Unlike the Sudano-sahelian regions, which are confronted to severe periods of food shortage, tropical rainforests are known to provide a constant supply of a great diversity of food resources that mitigates the risk of food starvation for omnivorous ...
Dounias, Edmond +4 more
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Bushmeat genetics : setting up a reference framework for the DNA typing of African forest bushmeat
Molecular Ecology Resources, 2014 The bushmeat trade in tropical Africa represents illegal, unsustainable off-takes of millions of tons of wild game - mostly mammals - per year. We sequenced four mitochondrial gene fragments (cyt b, COI, 12S, 16S) in >300 bushmeat items representing nine
Alain-Didier Missoup +36 more
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Trends in bushmeat trade in a postconflict forest town: implications for food security
Ecology and Society, 2017 Food insecurity and malnutrition can be major, yet often overlooked, consequences of armed conflicts because of the disruption of rural-urban trade networks and human migration toward safe urban centers.
Nathalie van Vliet +5 more
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Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2018 In the Congo Basin, food is an everyday concern and its acquisition and transformation often structure many of the activities of a human group. While agriculture provides the main source of calories, meat of wild animals, commonly referred to as bushmeat,
Romain Duda +2 more
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The socio-economic drivers of bushmeat consumption during the West African Ebola crisis. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 Bushmeat represents an important source of animal protein for humans in tropical Africa. Unsustainable bushmeat hunting is a major threat to wildlife and its consumption is associated with an increased risk of acquiring zoonotic diseases, such as Ebola ...
Isabel Ordaz-Németh +9 more
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Household bushmeat consumption in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo. [PDF]
Tropical Conservation Science, 2011 peer reviewedWildlife meat is an important source of animal protein for rural and urban populations in Congo. Quantitative and qualitative surveys on the consumption of bushmeat were undertaken in Brazzaville in 2006, in about 1,050 urban households. The
Mfoukou-Ntsakala, André +8 more
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Putting conservation efforts in Central Africa on the right track for interventions that last
Conservation Letters, 2022 Interventions in Africa designed to stop biodiversity decline have often failed because they were based on a top‐down approach to management and focused on enforcing restrictive rules and imposing bans.
Eric Djomo Nana +9 more
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The importance of bushmeat in the livelihoods of West African cash-crop farmers living in a faunally-depleted landscape. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Bushmeat is an important resource in the livelihoods of many rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa and may be a crucial safety-net for the most vulnerable households, especially during times of economic hardship.
Björn Schulte-Herbrüggen +3 more
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