The bushmeat chain reaction

Fossil fuel extraction

Hydroelectric production

War Weak governance

Hunting methods

Soldiers and refugees subsistence

Low or no regulation

Firegun usage

Cultural and social changes

All year hunting

Lack of meat farming

Plans

imposed by International Finance

Unemployment

Poverty

Source: Redmond, I., et al., Recipes for Survival: Controlling the Bushmeat Trade, WSPA Report 2006.

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Absence of economic and alimentary alternatives

Commercial bushmeat

hunting and species treat

Hunting efficency increased

Low meat productivity and higher costs of production

Deforestation and habitat loss

Demand Increase

Forest wildlife access facilitated

Increasing harvest competition

Infrastructure building

Workers

concentration in wildlife habitat

Logging and

Mining

Demographic increase