Bushmeat
Bushmeat: Delicacies of death
Nigeria’s bushmeat industry is thriving. It remains a firm favourite in Nigeria, and the demand is rising, despite the sale of bushmeat being official banned in the country. Bushmeat, including bats, pythons, porcupines and antelope is openly displayed alongside conventional livestock in the markets in the cities. According to[...]
Food security: Bushmeat and zoonotic disease spillover
A young Ugandan student has become the first to record how a deadly virus like Marburg, a close relative of Ebola, jump from the carrier animal to other animals and humans. Bosco Atukwatse, a 25-year-old undergraduate working with Volcanoes Safaris Partnership Trust Kyambura Lion Project in Queen Elizabeth National[...]