At a market in a warehouse, a dozen or so vendors display tables stacked with smoked meat priced from $5 to $8 per pound. Sellers cheerfully answer questions about their wares, which come from monkeys ...

In the tropics and subtropics, families and communities frequently rely on bushmeat for food security as well as basic income. So, while the harvest and trade of wildlife are illegal in many locales, ...

PARIS – PARIS (AP) — The traders sell an array of bushmeat: monkey carcasses, smoked anteater, even preserved porcupine. But this isn't a roadside market in Africa — it's the heart of Paris, where a ...

Ebola, as with many emerging infections, is likely to have arisen due to human interaction with wild animals -- most likely the practice of hunting and eating wild meat known as 'bushmeat.' A team of ...

According to a Dutch assessment, there is a high level of uncertainty around the risks posed by eating bushmeat. The Office for Risk Assessment and Research (BuRO), part of the Netherlands Food and ...

“There’s a live animal caught in a poacher’s snare!” yelled Isaac Maina as he took off running through the bush to reach it. Maina leads the African Network for Animal Welfare’s monthly “desnaring” ...

Bushmeat from Africa was confiscated at Detroit Metro twice during one week in late July, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency reported Wednesday. Bushmeat is a general term for the meat of ...

As debates have raged on throughout the COVID-19 pandemic — from lockdowns, to mask mandates, to vaccinations — experts have sought to pinpoint the origins of the virus. Most research has centered on ...

The bushmeat market in the city of Malabo is bustling—more so today than it was nearly two decades ago, when Gail Hearn, PhD, began what is now one of the region’s longest continuously running studies ...

Less than three miles from Yankee Stadium, the colorful storefronts of African markets lining the Grand Concourse are some of the first signs of a bustling Bronx community that includes immigrants ...

Bushmeat, or wild animal meat, is an essential source of protein for many people in tropical regions. But handling and eating bushmeat carries the risk of contracting diseases, such as Ebola virus ...

March 15, 2007 — -- In 2003, a large suitcase containing the remains of 26 butchered monkeys was confiscated at Logan Airport in Boston on its way from Ghana. The 300 pounds of raw meat, destined ...