The Oil Industry as an Underlying Factor in the Bushmeat Crisis in Central Africa

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1807-1813

  Thibault, Marc ^a   Blaney, Sonia ^a  

^a World Wildlife Fund   (Gabon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSHMEAT; DEFORESTATION; HABITAT LOSS; OIL INDUSTRY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0346104914     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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