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Bushmeat

Bushmeat refers to the meat of terrestrial wild animals, killed for subsistence or commercial purposes. Its use is a serious conservation threat for many primate species.

Note: Many sites containing information about bushmeat include graphic images that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

• Bushmeat Crisis Task Force  
• Bushmeat Project  
• Chimps Under the Gun  (PBS, Scientific American Frontiers)
• Final Draft Consensus Statement on Bushmeat  
• Gorillas in the Soup  
• Slaughter of the Apes  (October 13, 2006)
• The Bushmeat Trade  (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology; 2005)

In the News ( See all conservation news links)

• Lemurs Hunted, Eaten Amid Civil Unrest, Group Says  (National Geographic News; August 21, 2009)
• Gorillas orphaned by bushmeat trade set free on island  (Mongabay; August 10, 2009)
• More than 300 gorillas butchered each year in the Republic of Congo  (Mongabay; March 27, 2009)
• Bushmeat, an African delicacy, facing NY crackdown  (Reuters; February 22, 2009)
• Judge cans monkey meat  (New York Daily News; January 2, 2009)
• NY judge: Religion aside, monkey meat needs permit  (Associated Press; January 3, 2009)
• Man Suffers from 1,415 Diseases; Blames His Gorilla Meat Diet  (EcoWorldly)
• More diseases surface as bush meat eating rises  (Daily Monitor; August 20, 2008)
• DRC: Monkey pox kills 22 in Equateur province  (IRIN News; July 1, 2008)
• Central Africa: Expert Blames Aids, Ebola to Bush Meat  (The Citizen, Tanzania; June 6, 2008)
• Wildlife Meat Dangerous for Humans If Not Checked  (New Vision, Uganda; February 4, 2008)
• Hungry Tanzania refugees eat chimps and wild game  (Reuters Africa; January 22, 2007)
• A Taste of Baboon and Monkey Meat, and Maybe of Prison, Too  (New York Times; November 17, 2007)
• Chimpazees declining in parks - official  (New Vision, Uganda; November 18, 2007)
• Equatorial Guinea bans hunting and eating monkeys  (AFP; November 7, 2007)
• Dispute Over Monkey Meat Hits on Religious Freedom  (New York Sun; August 20, 2007)
• Bushmeat: Curse of the Monkey's Paw  (ABC News; March 15, 2007)
• Congo rebels kill rare ape, raising survival fears  (Reuters; January 10, 2007)
• Road kill in Cameroon - killing of gorillas and other animals  (Natural History; February 1997)
• Ape Meat Sold in U.S., European Black Markets  (National Geographic News; July 18, 2006)
• Africa's apes 'are being eaten to extinction'  (Mail and Guardian Online; June 30, 2006)
• Bushmeat trade threatens African wildlife  (Independent Online; June 18, 2006)
• In the past, game was locally hunted and eaten as part of the diet of villagers; Now it is being consumed on an industrial scale  (The Star, South Africa; June 14, 2006)
• Bush-meat traders threaten Nigeria's chimps  (Georgia Straight, Canada; November 3, 2005)
• Gorillas being poached for 'bushmeat' trade  (Independent Online, South Africa; August 31, 2005)