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Who ate all the crocodiles: An investigation of trends and patterns in trade and consumption of bushmeat in Gabon
Author
Author	Knights, K.
Year
Year	2008
Secondary Title
Secondary Title	Conservation Science
Volume
Volume
Pages
Pages
Abstract
Abstract	Trends through time and space in biomass, price and composition of bushmeat passing through 23 markets in Gabon were investigated, along with volumes and composition of consumption and effects of geographic and socioeconomic variables on consumption from studies covering 10 towns. Volumes and composition estimated from market trade and consumption in Libreville were compared. There is no evidence in markets in this study to support faunal depletion. This is primarily due to limitations of market data and the requirement of further information regarding catchment area and data on alternatives and consumer socioeconomics to infer depletion. No effects of seasonality were observed in market assemblages, indicating that sampling bias according to season does not invalidate comparisons between markets. Markets in Libreville were found to differ significantly in their proportions of reptiles and primates, indicating there may be specialisation of markets for certain produce. Consumption of bushmeat was found to be associated with both socioeconomic and geographic factors, with geographic factors playing a greater role in determining consumption quantity. Relationships between bushmeat consumption and prices and consumption quantities of alternatives were found only to exist for freshwater fish, in contrast to previous studies where the distinction between sea fish and freshwater fish was not made (Wilkie et al., 2005). The possible dietary substitutes for bushmeat are unlikely to include sea fish on the basis of this finding. Markets and consumption in Libreville are not representative of each other, and so interpretations of market studies and consumption studies should be treated with caution. The number one species represented in market assemblages in Libreville, dwarf crocodile, constituting 21% of the total market biomass, was not recorded at all in the consumption study in Libreville.
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