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| Author(s): | G. Davies and D. Brown (Eds) |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
| ISBN: | 9781405167796 |
| Format: | softback |
| 274pp | |
| Price: | £39.99 |
| Review Date: | 29 May 2008 |
| Review: | Bushmeat is taken to mean meat of wild mammals though sometimes includes not only wild terrestrial mammals, but also birds, reptiles and insects. It is traded raw or in preserved form and is important to the livelihood of forest dwellers. Its level of off-take is highest in humid forests of West-Central Africa and lower but still significant in Asia and South America. It was first estimated in the early 1990s that the annual consumption of bushmeat in Africa was over a million tones, while more recent estimates vary from one to five million tones in the Congo basin. This volume arose from an international conference on bushmeat and livelihoods held in London in 2004. The conference looked at the growing interest in the bushmeat trade as a potential threat to wildlife conservation in the tropics while at the same time recognizing it was a significant component of the livelihoods of people in the area. |