Assessment of the Structural Effects of Ebola Disease Outbreak on Bush Meat Enterprise in Nigeria: Implications on Biodiversity Conservation

Pre- and post-Ebola outbreak trends in wild meat trade in West Africa

“…According to some studies, wild meat prices returned to pre-EVD levels immediately after the country was declared free of Ebola (Ogoanah and Oboh, 2017). In a different Nigerian market of the Nsukka Agricultural Zone in Enugu State, Onyekuru et al (2018) reported that wild meat sales and consumption dropped during the EVD epidemics but similar to Benin City returned to previous levels afterwards. The research conducted in Benin City and the Nsukka Agricultural Zone were short-term studies from December 2014 and April 2015 (i.e., shortly after Nigeria was declared free of EVD) and in 2016, respectively (Ogoanah and Oboh, 2017;Onyekuru et al, 2018).…”