Bushmeat hunting may be hurting the balance of the natural ecosystem and destroying food security for nations around the world. New numbers are in from the International Union for the Conservation of ...

The bushmeat market in the city of Malabo is bustling—more so today than it was nearly two decades ago, when Gail Hearn, PhD, began what is now one of the region’s longest continuously running studies ...

Commercial killing of rainforest wildlife is putting biodiversity at risk and reducing sources of protein for rural populations, warns a new report from the Center for International Forestry Research ...

The threat posed by illegal bushmeat hunting to the Okavango Delta‘s tourism industry in Botswana has been exposed in a recently published report. Botswana is not normally associated with high levels ...

Covid-19 and the associated global economic, health and societal distortions have shed light on the alarming threat of infectious diseases emerging at an increasing rate. Around 60 percent of emergent ...

Extensive wildlife trade not only threatens species worldwide but can also lead to the transmission of zoonotic diseases. It encompasses hundreds of species with significant differences in their ...

Ebola, as with many emerging infections, is likely to have arisen due to human interaction with wild animals -- most likely the practice of hunting and eating wild meat known as 'bushmeat.' A team of ...

Barbed-wire snares, spent shotgun shells, the lingering smell of gunpowder, and strips of curing meat: glimpses from a bushmeat hunt. Bushmeat hunting is the illegal hunting of wildlife for food and ...

New York, NY and Hyderabad (India) October 12, 2012—A new report published today by Panthera confirms that widespread illegal hunting and the bushmeat trade occur more frequently and with greater ...

ACCRA, Ghana – August 30, 2002 – In an unprecedented effort to protect West Africa's endangered wildlife from destructive commercial hunting practices, a two-day conference, aimed at reducing the ...

In the tropics and subtropics, families and communities frequently rely on bushmeat for food security as well as basic income. So, while the harvest and trade of wildlife are illegal in many locales, ...