Cost sensitive bushmeat hunters help out conservering hunted wildlife species

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 08:01 in Biology & Nature

Hunting of bushmeat is one major cause of biodiversity loss in tropical countries. Research has shown that consumers of wildlife are price sensitive and that the quantity of meat purchased is influenced by the cost of bushmeat and its substitutes. Now also the behavior of the hunters has been studied.

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