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Figure 3:
The illicit bushmeat trade involves a series of underlying socio-economic factors, but leads, with rising population
densities, to local depletions of wildlife species, and increasingly inside protected areas
.
The bushmeat chain reaction
Source: Redmond, I.,
et al., Recipes for Survival:
Controlling the Bushmeat Trade
, WSPA Report 2006.
Demographic
increase
Logging
and
Mining
Fossil fuel
extraction
Hydroelectric
production
War
Weak
governance
Hunting
methods
Lack of meat
farming
Cultural and
social
changes
Plans
imposed by
International
Finance
Poverty
Demand Increase
Deforestation and
habitat loss
Infrastructure
building
Forest wildlife
access facilitated
Soldiers and
refugees subsistence
Low or no
regulation
Firegun usage
Hunting efficency
increased
Low meat productivity and
higher costs of production
Unemployment
All year hunting
Absence of economic and
alimentary alternatives
Increasing
harvest competi-
tion
Workers
concentration in
wildlife habitat
Commercial
bushmeat
hunting and
species threat
