Meanwhile, new logging roads are bringing outsiders and loggers into remote areas, and forest elephants are being killed for bushmeat as well as ivory.

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Ekwoge Enang Abwe runs a project to try to safeguard the creatures of the Ebo Forest: the gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys that are pillaged for bushmeat.

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In Africa they represent a particular threat to precious forest fauna, including chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, by connecting forests to the fast-growing cities where bushmeat is prized.

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The report urges immediate action to curb the destruction by farmers and loggers of forests in which primates dwell, and end the trade in bushmeat and exotic medicines from animal parts.

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But only in recent years, with the arrival of significant quantities of automatic weapons and the opening up of hitherto inaccessible forests by European and Asian companies, has the African bushmeat trade become unsustainable.

ECONOMIST: The bushmeat trade

She said that in her village the bridegroom was expected to take bushmeat to his in-laws as part of his dowry, but the zoo visit had shown her that there could be other alternatives to bushmeat.

BBC: Keeping Cameroon's primates from the pot

On the menu in a smart restaurant in Yaounde, one can find beef and pork - but also snake, pangolin and monkey - all products of a vast bushmeat trade that has now become the single biggest threat to wildlife in central Africa.

BBC: Keeping Cameroon's primates from the pot

"Bushmeat never stops, " says Andre.

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