On the sidelines of the session, Jonas Nyumu, a consultant researcher on wildlife at CIFOR-ICRAF, talked about alternative livelihoods to hunting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wild meat is an important source of food for many communities, but must be managed sustainably. At the European Conference of Tropical Ecology hosted at the University of Lisbon, researchers from around the world gathered at the session “Towards sustainable, equitable and safe wildmeat use in Tropical and sub-tropical countries: opportunities, lessons learnt, obstacles and risks” on 14 February to discuss wild meat practices and what they mean for health, the environment, and communities.
