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No need to beat around the bushmeat–The role of wildlife trade and conservation initiatives in the emergence of zoonotic diseases

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
Wildlife species constitute a vast and uncharted reservoir of zoonotic pathogens that can pose a severe threat to global human health. Zoonoses have become increasingly impactful over the past decades, and the expanding trade in wildlife is unarguably among the most significant risk factors for their emergence.
de Winter, Iris, Hilderink, Merel
openaire   +5 more sources

From the Forest to the Dish: A Comprehensive Study of the Wildmeat Value Chain in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Given the importance of wildmeat for local and national economies, understanding the structure and operations of the informal wildmeat value chains is necessary to provide recommendations for a sustainable wildmeat sector.
Nathalie Van Vliet   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socio-economic drivers of bushmeat consumption in the northern Angolan province of Uíge

open access: yesOryx
The overexploitation of wildlife for bushmeat consumption poses a significant threat to biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Angola, where the problem remains largely unexplored.
Lunis Giona Bolognino de Orth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Road development and the geography of hunting by an Amazonian indigenous group: consequences for wildlife conservation. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Protected areas are essential for conservation of wildlife populations. However, in the tropics there are two important factors that may interact to threaten this objective: 1) road development associated with large-scale resource extraction near or ...
Santiago Espinosa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting hunter behavior of indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon: insights from a household production model

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2015
Many indigenous communities living in the Amazon rely on hunting and fishing to meet the majority of their protein needs. Despite the importance of these practices, few studies from the region have analyzed the socioeconomic drivers of hunting and ...
Enrique de la Montaña   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the availability of bushmeat for consumption in Central African cities

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2019
The trade of bushmeat from rural areas to supply burgeoning cities is a major conservation and livelihood concern. Using a whole-city sampling strategy we mapped the distribution and numbers of meat outlets in the Kinshasa–Brazzaville metropolitan area ...
Julia E Fa   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The bushmeat trade in traditional markets in North Sulawesi, Indonesia

open access: yesBiodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity
Abstract. Ransaleleh TA, Wahyuni I, Rotinsulu MD, Nangoy MJ, Lomboan A, Onibala J, Laatung S, Kalangi LS, Saputro S, Wiantoro S. 2025. The bushmeat trade in traditional markets in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 26: 1929-1939. The bushmeat trade, which involves harvesting wild animal meat, is causing significant changes in the ecological ...
TILTJE ANDRETHA RANSALELEH   +9 more
openaire   +1 more source

A comparative study of the wildlife trade in Southern China and the bushmeat trade in Africa

open access: yes, 2012
published_or_final_version ; Environmental Management ; Master ; Master of Science in Environmental ...
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Assessing the Minimum Sampling Effort Required to Reliably Monitor Wild Meat Trade in Urban Markets

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
The trade of wild meat generates great economic returns for local communities but at a cost of increasing harvest rates of game species. Monitoring wild meat trade in urban markets is a low-cost method that can be employed to assess impacts of hunting on
Pedro Mayor   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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