Cable snares and bush meat markets in a central African forest.

摘要

Bush meat consumption and trade is the greatest threat to biodiversity conservation in African forest regions. In many areas cable snaring is the principal hunting method employed by subsistence and commercial hunters operating illegally. Methods for studying cable snaring and bush meat markets were compared at a single site in the Central African Republic (the village of Bayanga, located in a tropical forest nature reserve) using 1993-94 survey data in order to identify the relative strengths andweaknesses of the study methods. It is concluded that dependence upon any single survey method results in incomplete information on the ecological impacts of cable snare hunting and bush meat marketing.