Table 3 Description of the aspects of the wild vertebrate meat trade chain listed in the bushmeat trade papers published

Main actors and drivers in the trade chain

Specialized and diversified hunters, middlemen/resellers, market traders and vendors, stallholders, street vendors, chopbars/restaurant owners, wholesalers, retailers and consumers from local fairs

[24, 28, 29, 34, 45,46,47,48]

Ways of selling bushmeat

Fresh (in natura), frozen, smoked, salted and live animal

[28, 34, 46,47,48]

Places to buy and sell bushmeat

Markets, street markets, formal and informal restaurants, chopbars, street food stalls, end customer homes, residence of hunters and intermediaries, rural communities, riverboats, ports, family homes

[24, 28, 29, 34, 45,46,47,48]

Main end customers and consumers in the trade chain

Urban residents (teachers, merchants, civil servants, wholesalers, family members, friends and neighbors); customers of chopbars and restaurants; settler or mestizo families; indigenous and non-indigenous consumers; tourists and shoppers

[24, 28, 29, 34, 45,46,47,48]