A recent article outlines how researchers with the measured the attitudes, practices and zoonoses awareness among community members associated with the bushmeat trade in northern Uganda. In the ...

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While conducting a bird survey in the Ebo Forest Reserve of Cameroon, Scottish ornithologist Robin Whytock noted two uncommon forest raptors in a camp regularly used by commercial bushmeat hunters.

Hunting of bushmeat is one major cause of biodiversity loss in tropical countries. Research has shown that consumers of wildlife are price sensitive and that the quantity of meat purchased is ...

A potentially dangerous virus is moving from nonhuman primates to Africans who hunt and eat wild animals, a new study suggests. Scientists say reducing people’s consumption of wild-animal meat could ...

There is evidence that hunter-gatherers are optimal foragers whose behaviour is influenced by costs associated with foraging, and therefore for example rising the costs of ammunition could potentially ...

A rare species was spotted. Scientists can now use camera traps, instead of bushmeat hunters, to find an animal’s whereabouts. Camera traps, devices used to capture wildlife using motion sensors, are ...

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- 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 ...