The Last Stand of the Gorilla

The bushmeat chain reaction

Demographic increase

Logging and Mining

Fossil fuel extraction

Hydroelectric production

Infrastructure building

Workers concentration in wildlife habitat

War

Weak governance

Soldiers and refugees subsistence

Hunting methods

Low or no regulation

Forest wildlife access facilitated

Firegun usage

Increasing harvest competition

Cultural and social changes

All year hunting

Hunting efficency increased

Demand Increase

Lack of meat farming

Low meat productivity and higher costs of production

Deforestation and habitat loss

Plans imposed by International Finance

Absence of economic and alimentary alternatives

Unemployment

Species threatened with extinction

Poverty

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

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