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Financial values of bushmeat and effects of anthropogenic activities on mammal’s species in the Douala-Edea National Park, Cameroon
There is a continuous threat of wildlife in the African tropical rainforest as a result of anthropogenic activities, yet there is lack of baseline...
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DNA-ty** surveillance of the bushmeat in Côte d'Ivoire: a multi-faceted tool for wildlife trade management in West Africa
Surveying and quantifying the bushmeat crisis in Africa requires up-front, reliable species-level identification. We conducted a comprehensive survey...
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Impact of Hunting on the Lesula Monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) in the Lomami River Basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Understanding the impact of hunting on wildlife is necessary to protect biodiversity in remote, endangered ecosystems, where rural communities depend...
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Hunting techniques and their harvest as indicators of mammal diversity and threat in Northern Angola
Over-exploitation of wildlife especially bushmeat trade is the second most important threat to animal biodiversity. This also applies to Northern...
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The Global Squirrel Hunting Status and Its Marginalized Governance and Law Enforcement
For millennia squirrels are hunted, eaten, poached, traded for fur, killed as shooting targets, and trapped all around the world; they are an...
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Documentation of commercial and subsistence hunting of Critically Endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) in northeastern Madagascar
Hunting of wild animals for meat and habitat loss are the main drivers of wildlife population decline around the world, and in tropical regions in...
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Subsistence Hunting and Wild Meat Trade in Brazilian Amazonia
Subsistence hunting is a widespread human activity in Brazilian Amazonia, rooted in diverse and complex socioecological universes and intrinsic to a...
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Insights into illegal wildlife hunting by forest guards of selected tiger reserves in Central India
Illegal wildlife hunting is an anthropogenic threat to global fauna with a cascading detrimental effect on the ecosystems. India imposed a blanket...
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Exploring the bushmeat market in Brussels, Belgium: a clandestine luxury business
The European Union prohibits the import of meat (products) unless specifically authorised and certified as being eligible for import. Nevertheless,...
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Bushmeat hunting and consumption is a pervasive issue in African savannahs: insights from four protected areas in Malawi
The hunting and consumption of wild meat (bushmeat) is recognized as a key threat to the world’s biodiversity and there are indications this threat...
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Hunting Pressure on Primates in Veun Sai-Siem Pang National Park, Cambodia
Approximately 60% of primate species are threatened with extinction, primarily due to hunting and habitat loss. To alleviate primate hunting pressure...
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Into a Brighter Future
Limiting certain practices, such as human encroachment on animal habitats, markets selling wild animals and bushmeat hunting can reduce the risk of...
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Column: Re-considering The Potential Geographic Distribution of Great Apes for Conservation Action: What is Suitable?
All great ape species are critically endangered. Despite large investments of funding into great ape conservation in Africa, wild populations of...
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Hunting pressure modulates the composition and size structure of terrestrial and arboreal vertebrates in Amazonian forests
Overhunting is a leading contemporary driver of tropical forest wildlife loss. The absence or extremely low densities of large-bodied vertebrates...
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Determining the composition and structure of antelope communities in three study sites within the Niger Delta (Nigeria) based on bushmeat market data
The composition and structure of antelope assemblages were analyzed by using data from wild meat markets in three distinct study stations in the...
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Culture still matters: conservation implications of hunting by ethnolinguistic groups in Southwestern Amazonia after centuries of contact
The influence of sociocultural traits on hunting profiles has received little attention, though it is critical to an understanding of how human...
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Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Trace Metals Via Bushmeat in Ghana
Consumption and trade in bushmeat are entrenched in sub-Saharan Africa amid growing land degradation and environmental pollution that raise safety...
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Principal Drivers and Conservation Solutions to the Impending Primate Extinction Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue
Nonhuman primates are facing an impending extinction crisis with over 65% of species listed as Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered, and...
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Conserving the forgotten: New insights from a Central African biodiversity hotspot on the anthropogenic perception of nocturnal primates (Mammalia: Strepsirrhini)
The growing dependence of villagers on local forests (food, wood, etc.) makes the comparative assessment of the perceptions they have of the forest...
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From Tree Species to Forest Services: Ethnic Differences in Lomami, Democratic Republic of the Congo
From tree species to forest services: ethnic differences in Lomami, Democratic Republic of the Congo . Ethnicity is well–known to affect plant...
