Question

1) What is bushmeat?

2) What is the role of bushmeat hunting in the spread of infectious diseases?

3) Is bushmeat hunting in Africa the same as hunting deer, rabbits, bear, and other wild game here in the here in the United States? Identify any differences.

4) In many West African countries, seafood is a major component of the diet. Unavailability of seafood due to unsustainable fishing practices and global climate change has led to an increased demand for bushmeat. Discuss strategies of how best to handle this situation.

5) Bushmeat is virtually the only source of protein and iron available in the rural areas in Africa. A study done by Harvard University assessed the diet of children under the age of 12 in rural northwestern Madagascar. Their models indicated that removing access to bushmeat would lead to a 29% increase in the number of children suffering from anemia (iron deficiency). In these rural areas, how can you justify limiting or even outlawing bushmeat hunting and consumption when it could have a negative health impact on the population?

6) If you think bushmeat hunting is unavoidable, suggest at least 1 way to make it a safer practice.  

Answer 1

Ans 1- Bushmeat is the meat of African wild animal and it is used as food.it is an important important source of food for underdeveloped and many poor African countries particulary in rural areas.Bushmeat is a important source of protein for poor people.Hunting and selling is important source of income for poor people

Commercial harvesting and and trading of Bushmeat is considered to be harmful for biodiversity because due to many animals are extinct including mammals.Consumption of Bushmeat also causes transmission of several virus like Ebola and HIV

Ans 2-Bushmeat is a main source large number infectious diseases such as syphilis,influeza,smallpox,cholera,measles,tuberculosis,leprosy.some other fatal diseases also causes are HIV,AIDS,Ebola virus these are mainly spraed through bushmeat source.