Scientists estimate nearly 12,000 pounds of illegal bushmeat are smuggled into France from Africa every week, and the threat to endangered species is only getting worse. An undeclared bottle of ...

Bushmeat from wild primates in Africa is ending up on plates in North America and western Europe according to an article published in the current issue of New Scientist. Justin Brashares, a wildlife ...

Bushmeat is one of the major threats to wildlife in parts of Africa: large and medium-sized animals are vanishing from regions in a trend dubbed by biologists the ’empty forest syndrome’. A number of ...

Manchester - Africa's multi-million dollar bushmeat industry is threatening species like gorillas and chimpanzees with extinction, conservationists said on Monday. But the meat from wild animals is a ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists encountered potentially disease ridden bushmeat twice within one week at Detroit Metropolitan Airport late last month, U.S. officials said ...

A new report from the Center for International Forestry Research, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and partners warns that an upsurge in hunting bushmeat -- including mammals, ...

Customs officials at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport said Wednesday that they confiscated potentially deadly bushmeat numerous times in late December from travelers arriving from ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Like many West African immigrants in New York's Park Hill neighborhood, Liberian Jacob Massaquoi has a story about bringing bushmeat into the United State -- in his case, three ...

Customs and Border Protection officers say they have noticed a significant uptick in Saint Paul International Airport passengers returning from abroad with bushmeat. The ruminant meat can carry ...

Read more: Click here to read the original, longer version of this story. VULTURES are soaring in popularity – but that’s not good news. Big birds are appearing on hunters’ lists for the ...

Kenya’s wide-open, postcard-perfect savannah is dotted with acacia trees in every direction as the early morning fog still clouds the air. Donart Mwakio is doing his rounds in a white pickup truck ...

Nobody liked vultures much until now, but the change isn’t good news. Big birds appear to be next on the hunters’ list for the bushmeat trade, and vultures are their new favourite. Researchers visited ...