New analytical techniques have revealed that the scale of bushmeat trade in Central Africa may be much larger than originally thought, according to a study published today by TRAFFIC, the wildlife ...

June 5, 2007 -- Even in the arms of his surrogate mother, Yolo looks afraid. The 3-year-old bonobo (a type of chimpanzee) has been through a lot. Yolo is a bushmeat orphan; hunters killed his mother ...

In Boston, a dog with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection sniffed out something out of the ordinary in the bag of a passenger coming back from Africa. The traveler was reportedly returning from a ...

A dog working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a Boston airport alerted to what turned out to be four kilograms of dried monkey meat, which were confiscated from a traveler returning to the ...

CONAKRY/MONROVIA (Reuters) - Bushmeat - from bats to antelopes, squirrels, porcupines and monkeys - has long held pride of place on family menus in West and Central Africa, whether stewed, smoked or ...