Ghana: Bushmeat hunting

In Ghana, as elsewhere in West Africa, the meat of wild game is considered a delicacy. For the lack of a better job, many men have taken to hunting - anything they kill can be sold for money. With little discrimination for protected species and young or pregnant animals, most hunters catch any animal they run into, from rats, to antelopes, to lizards. Sold to restaurants or on the roadside, bushmeat can be a lucrative business. A single grasscutter (or greater cane rat) - a large rodent - can fetch up to $30, a monitor lizard - a less popular catch - will sell for $2 or $3.

 

Two men walk across a field with their dogs as they hunt wild game outside Winneba, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra,on Thursday Dec. 7, 2006.
Men walk through a field with their dogs at dawn as they hunt game near Winneba, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday Dec. 7, 2006.
A group of men walk across a field with their dogs at dawn as they hunt wild game outside Winneba, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra,on Thursday Dec. 7, 2006.
A dog listens and watches for movement as it helps his masters hunt wild game outside Winneba, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra, on Thursday Dec. 7, 2006.
Dogs run following their master's command as they chase small animals during a hunting session near Winneba, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday Dec. 7, 2006.
A man holds a dead monitor lizard after killing it with a club outside Winneba, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra, on Thursday Dec. 7, 2006. The lizard will fetch no more than $2 to $3 on the local market, unlike more popular game, such as the duiker or greater cane rat (grasscutter), that would sell for up to $30.
A bushmeat hunter carries a dead monitor lizard as he walks through a field outside Winneba, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra, on Thursday Dec. 7, 2006. The lizard will fetch no more than $2 to $3 on the local market, unlike more popular game, such as the duiker or greater cane rat (grasscutter), that would sell for up to $30.
Two dead greater cane rats lie on the ground at a vendor stall on the roadside near Mankessim, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006.
A man inserts sticks into the carcass of a dead greater cane rat prior to smoking it at his stall on the roadside near Mankessim, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Wednesday Dec. 6, 2006.
A man puts wood on the fire he uses to smoke the carcasses of dead animals before selling them on the roadside near Mankessim, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra, on Wednesday Dec. 6, 2006. Being smoked are greater cane rats, duikers and a rat.
A man tries to sell a smoked greater cane rat and a dead duiker by the roadside while more animals are being smoked near Mankessim, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra, on Wednesday Dec. 6, 2006.
Two men hold a smoked greater cane rat (left) and a dead duiker (right) as they try to sell them on the roadside near Mankessim, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Wednesday Dec. 6, 2006.
A man holds a smoked greater cane rat (right) and a dead duiker (left) as he tries to sell them on the roadside near Mankessim, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Wednesday Dec. 6, 2006.
A man holds a dead duiker as he tries to sell it on the roadside near Mankessim, roughly 50km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Wednesday Dec. 6, 2006.
 
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