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African white-backed vulture in Kenya African Vulture Species Distributions Map created using IUCN Red List and GADM data by Alison Thieme. The African vulture trade involves the poaching, trafficking, and illegal sale of vultures and vulture parts for bushmeat and for ritual and religious use, like traditional medicines, in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Bushmeat represents a primary source of animal protein and a cash-earning commodity in poor and rural communities of humid tropical forest regions of the world. [1] [2] The numbers of animals killed and traded as bushmeat in the 1990s in West and Central Africa were thought to be unsustainable. [3]
The Malabo market is the primary point of sale for bushmeat on Bioko Island. [1] The drill plays an important role in the cultural tradition of bushmeat consumption, and is locally considered to be tasty, and in some regions, a delicacy. [6] The commercialisation of hunting on Bioko Island has made this practice unsustainable. [1]
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In Guinea, dead African palm civets were recorded in spring 1997 on bushmeat market in villages located in the vicinity of the National Park of Upper Niger. [19] Dried heads of African palm civets were found in 2007 at the Bohicon and Dantokpa Markets in southern Benin, suggesting that they are used as fetish in animal rituals. [20]
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A 1988 report found that in Nigeria, the long-tailed (Phataginus tetradactyla) and white-bellied (Phataginus tricuspis) species were the second-most expensive bushmeat. [26] However, in some areas, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo , pangolins are one of the least frequently captured animals for bushmeat (totaling 1.7% of the species ...