"In the wild, the Western chimpanzee is under huge threat from
bush-meat hunting, as well as extensive and increasing habitat loss and fragmentation from human activity, so much so that it is the first-ever chimpanzee sub-species to join the list of critically endangered great apes.
"In the wild, the Western chimpanzee is under huge threat from
bush-meat hunting as well as extensive and increasing habitat loss and fragmentation from human activity, so much so that it is the first ever chimpanzee subspecies to join the list of critically endangered great apes.
"In the wild, the Western chimpanzee is under huge threat from
bush-meat hunting as well as extensive and increasing habitat loss and fragmentation from human activity, so much so it is the first chimpanzee subspecies to join the list of critically endangered great apes.
Habitat loss,
bush-meat poaching, and human-predator conflict - primarily with local herders that share their land and livestock grazing areas with the lions' habitat - are the main reasons for this sharp and worrisome trend.
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Adau Chol, who came to buy
bush-meat in Marol market, said the dry
bush-meat was cheaper than one kilogram of fresh cow meat.
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Another ongoing but unrelated case was that of a local
bush-meat cartel.
''The chimps and gorillas become sick and become easy targets for
bush-meat hunters.''
As if to hammer this home, we're taken to a
bush-meat market where a butchered monkey arm hangs down from a table.
MSF says that a probable cause of the latest outbreak of Ebola could be attributed to the bat population, which could have been transmitted to monkeys, who then killed by hunters for "
bush-meat".
The World Wildlife Fund estimated that there are only 90,000 Western Lowlands gorillas in the wild, with numbers dwindling due to the destruction of their habitat, and the
bush-meat trade in Africa.