Hi Cyrus, are you looking for live trade or trade in parts? We observed some trade in carnivore parts in Morocco, North Africa (see attached). We have another paper in litt. on trade of carnivore pelts in Morocco but much of the data is available from this paper.

Here are a couple of other papers that reference carnivore trade in Africa:

ANGELICI, F.M. (1999) Bushmen and mammal fauna: a survey of the mammals traded in bushmeat markets of local people in the rainforests of southeastern Nigeria. Anthropozoologica, 30 (51 - 58)

Ray JC, Hunter L, Zigouris J. 2005. Setting conservation and research priorities for larger African carnivores. New York: Wildlife Conservation Society; Report nr No.24. 1

Sillero-Zubiri C, Hoffmann M, Macdonald DW (Eds.) (2004) Canids: foxes, wolves, jackals, and dogs: status survey and conservation action plan (Vol. 62). Osprey Publishing, Oxford

Hope that helps,

Daniel

Article Open, Unregulated Trade in Wildlife in Morocco’s Markets

Dear Cyrus

besides looking at scientific articles, I'd recommend searching the TRAFFIC website which offers a lot of freely downloadable resources:

http://www.traffic.org/mammals/

Please scroll down the page, there is a "CARNIVORA (Bears, cats etc)" section with plenty of links to good docs

I hope this helps, all best

Danilo

Dear Cyrus,

According to what you had ask for, I recommend you the following articles:

1. F. A. V. St John et al. (2011), Identifying indicators of illegal behaviour: carnivore killing in human-managed landscapes, Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 804–812

2. E. de Merode et al. (2004), The value of bushmeat and other wild foods to rural households living in extreme poverty in Democratic Republic of Congo, Biological Conservation 118, 573–581

3. Lindsey et al. (2011), Dynamics and underlying causes of illegal bushmeat trade in Zimbabwe, Oryx, 45(1), 84–95

4. Milledge, S. A. (2007). Illegal killing of African rhinos and horn trade, 2000-2005: the era of resurgent markets and emerging organized crime. Pachyderm, (43), 96-107

5. Gandiwa, E., Heitkönig, I. M., Lokhorst, A. M., Prins, H. H., & Leeuwis, C. (2013). Illegal hunting and law enforcement during a period of economic decline in Zimbabwe: A case study of northern Gonarezhou National Park and adjacent areas. Journal for Nature Conservation, 21(3), 133-142

I hope these articles will be helpful for your work,

Yiannis

You can also see this website for more information

http://www.havocscope.com/tag/wildlife-trafficking/