Role of Prices and Wealth in Consumer Demand for Bushmeat in Gabon, Central Africa

By D. Wilkie, Malcolm Starkey, K. Abernethy, Ernestine Ntsame Effa, P. Telfer, R. Godoy. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Incentives for Hunting: The Role of Bushmeat in the Household Economy in Rural Equatorial Guinea (2010, background): “2005) and Gabon (Wilkie et al. 2005), although not eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where it was found to be a superior good (de Merode et al.”
• Hunting for livelihood in northeast Gabon: patterns, evolution, and sustainability. (2008, background): “With human population growth in the region at 2–3% annually, if patterns of bushmeat consumption do not change, the demand for bushmeat will double in < 20 yr, and large-bodied species could be hunted to local extinction in many forests by 2020 (Wilkie et al. 2005).”
• Recognizing the Multiple Reasons for Bushmeat Consumption in Urban Areas: A Necessary Step Toward the Sustainable Use of Wildlife for Food in Central Africa (2011, background): “In urban areas, most consumers typically choose the cheapest form of meat (Wilkie & Carpenter, 1999; Wilkie et al., 2005) or the most available and not necessarily the most preferred.”