Recurring Ebola outbreaks in Democratic Republic of Congo are linked to rural communities’ customs and reliance on bushmeat as a source of protein.

An exotic food product known as “bushmeat” is showing up increasingly at one of the nation’s busiest airports and U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the mystery meat is potentially deadly.

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 ...

Zebra meat / KWS The Kenya Wildlife Service haswarned Kenyans against consuming bushmeat, saying it poses serious health risksdue to the transmission of zoonotic diseases and threatens both human life ...

Bushmeat hunting may be hurting the balance of the natural ecosystem and destroying food security for nations around the world. New numbers are in from the International Union for the Conservation of ...

“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” ...

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U.S. Customes and Border Patrol has identified a trend of passengers returning from Africa declaring “bushmeat” as “fish.” The product is considered illegal and dangerous. US Customs photo An exotic ...