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MBANDAKA, CONGO — For 25 years, Patrick Matondo has earned a living buying and selling monkeys, bats and other animals popularly known as bush meat along the Congo River.
POINTE-NOIRE, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- As many as 100 gorillas a year may be killed by poachers and sold for bush meat in a single region in the Republic of Congo, an ...
After a few days hunting in the forest, Matongu sells most of what he killed - making from 5,000 to 100,000 Congolese francs (around $7 to $60) – and keeps just enough meat for his family for a ...
People in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are being hit hard by rising food prices. Cattle meat in particular has become so expensive that locals have had to change their attitudes ...
An estimated 10,000 wild meat dishes are sold in restaurants every day in just two central African cities in a trade that is rapidly emptying the continent’s forests of its wildlife, researchers ...
For 25 years, Patrick Matondo has earned a living buying and selling monkeys, bats and other animals popularly known as bush meat along the Congo River. Standing on the riverbank in Mbandaka, a ...