Bushmeat and food security in the Congo Basin: linkages between wildlife and people's future

By J. Fa, D. Currie, J. Meeuwig. Environmental Conservation, 2003

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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): “Assesments of bushmeat consumption across the Congo Basin range from 1 million tons to 5 million tons ( Fa, Currie, & Meeuwig, 2003 ), which is equivalent to twice the annual production of beef in France.”
Incentives for Hunting: The Role of Bushmeat in the Household Economy in Rural Equatorial Guinea (2010, background): “However, there are grave concerns that unsustainable hunting is leading to the extinction of large mammal species (Ape Alliance 2006; Mainka and Trivedi 2002), and that protein shortages will ensue once bushmeat supplies are exhausted (Fa et al. 2003).”
Survival, interactions with conspecifics and reproduction in 37 chimpanzees released into the wild (2005, background): “Throughout their range, African great apes are threatened by deforestation, hunting for bush-meat and disease outbreaks (e.g., Barnes, 2002; Fa et al., 2003; Walsh et al., 2003; Leroy et al., 2004).”
Hunting for livelihood in northeast Gabon: patterns, evolution, and sustainability. (2008, background): “…studies have documented bushmeat as the main source of dietary protein and one of the most important sources of income for rural people in Central Africa (Lahm 1993, Wilkie and Carpenter 1999, Bakarr et al. 2001), where the current annual harvest could exceed two million tonnes (Fa et al. 2003).”
Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores (2015, neutral): “Under a business-as-usual scenario, food security will continue to falter given that wild meat in African forests is expected to decline bymore than 80% during the next 50 years (78).”
Hunting and trapping in Lebialem Division, Cameroon: bushmeat harvesting practices and human reliance. (2010, background): “Bushmeat is widely recognised as an important source of protein in the Congo Basin (Ntiamoa-Baidu 1997, Fa et al. 2003).”
Wild meat: the bigger picture (2003, background): “sustainable levels, it is generally unlikely to provide an offtake that is large enough to meet hunters’ economic wishes, or consumers’ dietary needs [ 45 ].”
What hope for African primate diversity (2006, background): “It is clear that realistic alternatives, that provide food for people and an income for communities, need to be found if we are to stop the bushmeat crisis (Barnes, 2002; Fa et al., 2003; Pearce, 2005).”
Role of Prices and Wealth in Consumer Demand for Bushmeat in Gabon, Central Africa (2005, background): “For many large-bodied and slow-growing species, commercial hunting of bushmeat already exceeds the replacement rate (Barnes 2002; Bennett et al. 2002; Fa et al. 2003).”