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Published online 29 June 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060626-10
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Bushmeat surveyed in Western cities
Illegally hunted animals turn up in markets from New York to London.
Baboons, duiker antelopes and cane rats are available by the pound in markets in major cities in North America and Europe, a scientist reported at the Society for Conservation Biology meeting in San Jose, California, this week.
While the meat showing up in cities from New York to London represent just a sliver of the illegal bushmeat trade, it highlights the strong demand that still exists for illegally hunted meat, the ecologist says.
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