Michael was a bushmeat orphan. One morning when Michael was still young he awoke in a state of extreme distress. Penny sat calmly with him while Ron set up the video. They talked in the gorilla ...

Bushmeat, or wild animal meat, is an essential source of protein for many people in tropical regions. But handling and eating bushmeat carries the risk of contracting diseases, such as Ebola virus ...

Nathan Wolfe chats with a local art dealer near the headquarters of his Cameroon research project, Yaounde. Baby gorilla orphan rescued from the bushmeat trade, at the Mefou National Park primate ...

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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol intercepted 11 pounds of rodent meat and 52 pounds of primate meat at the Metropolitan Airport at the end of July 2025. The primate meat arrived from Gabon, and the ...

A sanctuary on the outskirts of Congo's capital of Kinshasa is the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, usually rescued from poachers.

Bushmeat is a catchall phrase for the meat of wild animals, but it most often refers to the remains of animals killed in the forests and savannas of Africa. African people have long hunted bats, ...

Poachers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) threaten the existence of the largest remaining continuous population of chimpanzees in the world. This conclusion is based on observations made ...

In a recent study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers use geospatial models based on published data and demographic and ecological drivers of bushmeat activity to ...

Tony Rose is founder of the Bushmeat Project and director of The Gorilla Foundation‘s Wildlife Protectors Fund, a nonprofit organization working to influence positive shifts in conservation values and ...