CABLE SNARES AND BUSHMEAT MARKETS IN A CENTRAL AFRICAN FOREST

Bushmeat consumption and trade is the greatest threat to biodiversity conservation in African forest regions. In many areas cable snaring is the principal hunting method employed by subsistence and commercial h unters. Methods for studying cable snaring and bushmeat markets were c ompared at a single site in the Central African Republic, in order to identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of the methods. Depende nce upon any single method results in incomplete information on the ec ological impacts of cable snare hunting and bushmeat marketing.