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FIG. 2 Estimated price of bushmeat of the different species traded in Kindu market. Guenons Cercopithecus spp. could not be determined to species level because of the poor quality of smoked carcasses.


FIG. 3 Estimated number of carcasses of the different species traded annually during the open season in Kindu market. Guenons Cercopithecus spp. could not be determined to species level because of the poor quality of smoked carcasses.


Oluo; Fig. 1) to purchase carcasses directly from hunters, who are either their established business partners or oppor- tunistic hunters present in the town that day. A small num- ber of vendors in Kindu reported their husband or other male family member hunted regularly and provided them with carcasses to sell. Many hunters who partner with retai- lers are not from the ethnic groups living in the area, but are what local people in the focus group discussions referred to as foreign hunters. Per weight, the servaline genet Genetta servalina was


the most expensive species, whereas the dwarf crocodile Osteolaemus tetraspis was the cheapest, and most species cost USD 1.50–2.50 per kg (Fig. 2). However, the crocodile prices were probably underestimated because we only found two very small individuals in the market during our survey, which were unlikely to have the mean weight re- ported in the literature. For most species, our estimated price per kg is probably an underestimate as we used the


mean weight of adults (and some individuals sold may have been juveniles). We also used the mean of female and male weights for our calculations (which can differ sig- nificantly in some species), without attempting to determine the sex of individual carcasses. The use of the servaline genet in rituals may explain its high price even when traded for bushmeat. Compared with available alternative protein, bushmeat was much cheaper than beef (c. USD 6.50 per kg) or chicken (c. USD 7.50 per kg), although direct comparison is difficult because beef is usually traded as pieces of meat rather than as whole carcasses. We estimated that the 30 vendors surveyed traded a total


of .40,000 carcasses during the open season annually, with an annual retail value of USD 725,000. We estimated that one-third of the traded carcasses were of two species, the blue duiker and red-tailed monkey (Fig. 3). The species traded in greatest numbers were also those traded by most vendors, together with guenons and Peters’s duiker (Table 1,


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