Page 1 Towards a sustainable, participatory and inclusive wild meat sector Lauren Coad,
John E. Fa, Katharine Abernethy, Nathalie van Vliet, Catalina Santamaria, David Wilkie, Hani …

The hunting of wild animals for their meat has been a crucial activity in the evolution of
humans. It continues to be an essential source of food and a generator of income for millions …

Although the bushmeat trade is a significant component of the Anthropocene crisis in the
tropics, the reliability of species-level identification is generally lacking from bushmeat …

Conservation interventions have wide-ranging social impacts-both positive and negative.
Yet a limited understanding of how conservation initiatives affect people's livelihoods often …

Rapid increases in human populations and environmental changes of past decades have
led to changes in rates of contact and spatial overlap with wildlife. Together with other …

As a result of declining biodiversity and increasing rates of urbanization, the illegal urban
wildmeat trade is projected to become an integral sector of the wildlife crime industry …

The most recent emerging infectious diseases originated in animals, mainly in wildlife
reservoirs. Mutations and recombination events mediate pathogen jumps between host …

Hunting may be the greatest threat to wildlife populations across the Congo basin. Large-
bodied species are the most vulnerable; alterations in assemblages of such keystone …

The commercial trade in wild meat is booming in Central Africa. Addressing this issue is a
global priority because the trade poses a major threat to biodiversity and human health. We …

Background and Research Aims: The bushmeat trade is one of the main drivers of faunal
extinction in tropical Africa. We assess the profitability of the bushmeat trade along the …