bushmeat
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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This is often due to dangers animals face in the wild, including poaching for bushmeat, habitat loss and degradation — in some instances caused by mineral hunting for electronics — as well as disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
The organisation, along with other local groups, removes snares, safeguards dens and provides information for law enforcement on illegal trade in ivory and bushmeat.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025
Spreading over dozens of hectares of protected tropical rainforest, Tacugama is home to the critically endangered Western chimpanzee, which is threatened by habitat loss and poaching for bushmeat.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
The culprits behind their decline are all too familiar: deforestation, mining, agriculture and the relentless illegal trade in bushmeat and live animals.
From Salon • Oct. 7, 2023
“Would you have rather I left them with the nice bushmeat trader?”
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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