An oil-rich West African island offers decades of insight into the wild meat trade

An oil-rich West African island offers decades of insight into the wild meat trade

The volcanic island of Bioko, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, northwest of mainland Equatorial Guinea, is carpeted in lush green tropical rainforest. This forest is home to many endemic animals, including Bioko drill monkeys (Mandrillus leucophaeus poensis), listed as endangered, and black colobus monkeys (Colobus satanas satanas), critically endangered. Interspersed in the landscape are patches of croplands and cacao and coffee plantations …