While bushmeat remains a crucial food source for many rural communities in Cameroon and Central Africa, unsustainable and illegal hunting practices are taking a heavy toll on wildlife populations ...

However, do trends in deforestation, climate change, bushmeat hunting, and disease provide us only despair, or is there a foundation for hope? Although slowing rates of habitat loss are an ...

Before your next bush cuisine, please take a pose and contemplate the potential risks, because eating bush meat could potentially leave you fighting a deadly disease. This is according to a report ...

Killing, cooking and eating bushmeat puts the entire human population in the area at risk, opening a doorway through which animal diseases can be transmitted to humans, sometimes with lethal effects.

New diseases, in a new host ... people also use urban wildlife for food - eating animals caught within the city or bushmeat harvested from the surrounding area. To date, almost 8,000 cases ...

However, poaching continues unabated due to a lack of enforcement of national and international laws, coupled with ineffective judiciary systems. The commercial trade in bushmeat, which occurs ...

Bushmeat is a delicacy in parts of Nigeria, but in other places it can be a vital source of food The Nigerian government has banned the sale of bushmeat as a precaution to stop the spread of ...

Therefore, the survey noted that “despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the links between the bushmeat trade and the spread of zoonotic diseases, 75 percent of the respondents intend to eat bushmeat ...

issued a directive warning Kenyans against handling or consuming bush meat due to the spread of Mpox in the country. In a ...