Bushmeat

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Bushmeat is meat from wildlife hunted for human consumption, particularly in Africa. Bushmeat often consists of local mammals in an area, but can also refer to small birds and reptiles. As of 2016, 301 terrestrial mammals were threatened with extinction due to hunting for bushmeat including non-human primates, even-toed ungulates, bats, diprotodont marsupials, rodents and carnivores occurring in developing countries. Bushmeat is also a significant public health concern due to its association with zoonotic disease transmission. Bushmeat represents a primary source of animal protein and a source of income in poor and rural communities of humid tropical forest regions of the world. Typically, bushmeat trade cooccurs with other environmental exploitation issues, such as logging, or land degradation. Experts often study bushmeat use as a symptom of larger sustainable development issues, in frameworks like One Health that combine the environmental impact of bushmeat with the health impacts...

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