The bushmeat chain reaction
Logging and Mining
Fossil fuel extraction
Demographic increase
Hydroelectric production Infrastructure building
War Weak governance
Soldiers and refugees subsistence
Hunting methods
Low or no regulation
Forest wildlife access facilitated
Firegun usage
Cultural and social changes
Workers concentration in wildlife habitat
Increasing harvest competition
All year hunting
Lack of meat farming
Hunting efficency increased Low meat productivity and higher costs of production
Demand Increase Deforestation and habitat loss
Plans imposed by International Finance Unemployment
Absence of economic and alimentary alternatives
Commercial bushmeat hunting and species threat
Poverty Source: Redmond, I., et al., Recipes for Survival: Controlling the Bushmeat Trade, WSPA Report 2006.
Figure 3: The illicit bushmeat trade involves a series of underlying socio-economic factors, but leads, with rising population densities, to local depletions of wildlife species, and increasingly inside protected areas.
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