“…reported that restrictions to forest resources led to increased income losses, and significant changes in their diets, and reduced access to native medicinal plants (Bajracharya et al, 2006;Ferraro, 2002;Coad et al, 2008). In the Congo Basin, bushmeat has been reported to be an important source of fall-back income in the absence of alternative livelihood opportunities (Kümpel et al, 2010), and also provides from 30 to 80 per cent of the daily protein requirements (Foppes & Ketphanh, 2004;Wilkie & Carpenter, 1999). In forest zones of West and Central Africa, hunting for trade to urban markets has been shown to contribute 60 per cent of the income of poor to middle income households (Coad et al, 2010;Endamana et al, 2010;Kümpel et al, 2010).…”