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    Bushmeat is meat from wildlife species that are hunted for human consumption. Bushmeat represents a primary source of animal protein and a cash-earning...
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    Ebola (section Bushmeat)
    to patients and while handling potentially infected bushmeat, as well as thoroughly cooking bushmeat. An Ebola vaccine was approved by the US FDA in December...
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    meat is the flesh and other edible parts derived from monkeys, a kind of bushmeat. Human consumption of monkey meat has been historically recorded in numerous...
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    poaching, trafficking, and illegal sale of vultures and vulture parts for bushmeat and for ritual and religious use, like traditional medicines, in Sub-Saharan...
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    Pokola (section Bushmeat)
    farmland, Pokola residents rely on illegal bushmeat for food, with over 5% of meals eaten in Pokola being bushmeat in 2002, a rise from 1% in 2001. Pokola...
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    [self-published source] Bushmeat is widely eaten in Liberia, and is considered a delicacy. A 2004 public opinion survey found that bushmeat ranked second behind...
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    of the meat found in bushmeat markets. Some researchers have found that up to 5 million tonnes (5,500,000 short tons) of bushmeat are traded annually....
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    have their major source of food reduced. Duikers are often captured for bushmeat. In fact, duikers are one of the most hunted animals “both in terms of...
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    blindness. Most of the vipers sold for human consumption at the rural bushmeat markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo host A. grandis. Christoffersen...
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    Ouésso (section Bushmeat)
    Ouésso. In 1994, Ouésso consumed 7,500 kilograms of bushmeat a week. The most sold animal in the bushmeat market are duikers, but gorillas, monkeys, and elephants...
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    abundance and varied. Bushmeat is also consumed in Nigeria. The brush-tailed porcupine and cane rats are the most popular bushmeat species in Nigeria. Tropical...
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    Control and Prevention (CDC) hunting and consuming wild animal meat ("bushmeat") in regions like Africa can expose people to infectious diseases due to...
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  • from western gorillas. Karl Ammann, a Swiss Kenyan photographer and anti-bushmeat campaigner, first visited the city in 1996, looking for the gorillas. Instead...
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    result, human-elephant conflict has increased. Poaching for ivory and bushmeat is a significant threat in Central Africa. Because of a spike in poaching...
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    Bushmeat being prepared for cooking in Ghana, 2013. Human consumption of animals as bushmeat in equatorial Africa has caused the transmission of diseases...
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    the major reasons of poaching is for consumption and sale of bushmeat. Usually, bushmeat is considered a subset of poaching because of the hunting of...
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    primary point of sale for bushmeat on Bioko Island. The drill plays an important role in the cultural tradition of bushmeat consumption, and is locally...
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    of bat meat is not available as of 2012. In many developing countries, bushmeat, including bat meat, is considered a major nutritional resource, including...
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    the bushmeat trade. Bushmeat is meat from forest wildlife. In Africa, the forest is often referred to as "the bush", thus creating the term bushmeat. In...
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    In Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it is consumed as bushmeat. It has been investigated as a potential reservoir of the Ebola virus,...
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    (fermented locust beans). Typical meats include beef, goat, fish, chicken, bushmeat, shrimp, or crayfish. It can be eaten with fufu, or with pounded yam. In...
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    the Congo Basin, the proportion of large-bodied snakes offered at rural bushmeat markets increases. Consequently, a large proportion of the human population...
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    monkeys. Bushmeat is often exported to neighboring Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast, despite a ban on the cross-border sale of wild animals. Bushmeat is widely...
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    Africa, a combination of poisonings and vulture trade (including use as bushmeat and traditional medicine) account for roughly 90% of the population declines...
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    animal meat is traded" and vultures take up a large percentage of this bushmeat due to the demand in the fetish market. The substantial drop in vulture...
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    According to the article “Do bushmeat consumers have other fish to fry?” the amount of wild animals that are hunted for bushmeat increases when the production...
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    According to the natural transfer theory (also called "hunter theory" or "bushmeat theory"), in the "simplest and most plausible explanation for the cross-species...
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    Southern Chinese term that describes various types of game meat, including bushmeat from exotic wild animals. The character 野 (pinyin: yě) means "wild", and...
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    deforestation of tropical rainforest, the hunting of endangered species for bushmeat, the pollution of rivers and coastal waters from industrial run-off and...
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    In some parts of Africa, wild animals hunted for their meat are called bushmeat; see that article for more detailed information on how this operates within...
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