Future solutions: Recognizing local and traditional knowledge

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Center for International Forestry Research

Despite being illegal, bushmeat trade is a reality that contributes to many people's livelihoods. Bushmeat trade in Colombia only occurs at a relatively local scale, with the surplus being sold in the village or sent to the nearest town. Urban indigenous people consume bushmeat and consider this as their ancestral right that cannot be removed from them just because they have adopted a urban lifestyle.


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