Toward a sustainable, participatory and inclusive wild meat sector

Abstract

The main animals that are hunted are warthogs, monkeys and Gambia rats. (Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR) For this report, where photographs focused on one or a few people to the extent where individuals could be recognized, we decided to only use photos where the subject had given consent for the photograph to be used for this report. This cautious approach was adopted due to the illegality of hunting, or the ambiguity of hunting laws in many tropical countries.

High abundance and large proportion of medium and large duikers in an intact and unhunted afrotropical protected area: Insights into monitoring methods

“…It is particularly widespread throughout the Congo Basin and considered as the most serious threat for Afrotropical rainforest mammals (Abernethy et al, 2013;Young et al, 2016;Ziegler et al, 2016). Bushmeat is important for people's livelihoods, food security and economic income of forest dwellers (Coad et al, 2019;Fa & Brown, 2009;Fa et al, 2015;Milner-Gulland et al, 2003;Nasi et al, 2011;Taylor et al, 2015;Wilkie & Carpenter, 1999). However, increasing demand, commercialisation of bushmeat and usage of unselective metal cable snares has been leading to unprecedented rates of bushmeat offtake (Coad et al, 2019;Fa et al, 2005;Kamgaing et al, 2019) leading to population crashes with far reaching consequences for food security and local people's livelihoods (Abernethy et al, 2013;Bélanger & Pilling, 2019;Coad et al, 2019;Rao & McGowan, 2002).…”

“…Bushmeat is important for people's livelihoods, food security and economic income of forest dwellers (Coad et al, 2019;Fa & Brown, 2009;Fa et al, 2015;Milner-Gulland et al, 2003;Nasi et al, 2011;Taylor et al, 2015;Wilkie & Carpenter, 1999). However, increasing demand, commercialisation of bushmeat and usage of unselective metal cable snares has been leading to unprecedented rates of bushmeat offtake (Coad et al, 2019;Fa et al, 2005;Kamgaing et al, 2019) leading to population crashes with far reaching consequences for food security and local people's livelihoods (Abernethy et al, 2013;Bélanger & Pilling, 2019;Coad et al, 2019;Rao & McGowan, 2002). Furthermore, unsustainable hunting has negative impacts on the size and composition of wildlife populations (Koerner et al, 2017;Muchaal & Ngandjui, 1999;Ripple et al, 2016;Tagg et al, 2020) and can lead to forests without animals (Wilkie et al, 2011).…”

Mapping the availability of bushmeat for consumption in Central African cities

“…In Central Africa alone, the trade of wild meat is estimated to be USD 1000-3000 million (Wilkie and Carpenter 1999). Such levels of extraction of terrestrial wildlife for food substantially exceeds sustainable offtake rates; the economic value being a short-term gain that will dwindle rapidly as wildlife populations are depleted (Coad et al 2019). In particular, the desire of families in towns and cities to eat bushmeat is a key factor driving overexploitation of wildlife in this region (Cowlishaw and Rowcliffe 2004, Wilkie et al 2005, Cronin et al 2015.…”

Carcass Yields and Physical-Chemical Meat Quality Characteristics of Namibian Red Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) as Influenced by Sex and Muscle

“…Game meat is frequently a by-product of the recreational hunting industry [9]; however, the potential of harvesting game species for meat production has only been recently recognised, together with investigations into how to make it a more sustainable food source. This idea has become the latest focus worldwide [10][11][12]. Although there have been calls to remove bush/game meat from the human food chain to protect public health and biodiversity [13], it has been demonstrated that the sudden removal of this source of protein could result in the loss of food security, particularly in developing countries [10,14].…”