by Sarah Elton, Maclean’s

Apes are one of many African staples for sale in Canada due to an illegal trade in bush meat

For the past 10 years, Brashares has been running an international study on the bushmeat trade, for which he has monitored the species of wild animals from West and Central Africa sold each month at dozens of underground markets in 40 cities across Europe and North America, including Toronto and Montreal.


A bush meat market in Ivory Cost. (Reuters)