Table 1.

Estimated prevalence of bushmeat hunting by communities surrounding the Serengeti National Park in previous studies

Prevalence (% of households hunting)	No. households surveyed	No. villages sampled	Comments by authors	Reference
8	590	8	“Hunting may well exceed the levels reported [which can] probably be attributed to the contentious nature of the issue and the fear of repercussion.”	Kaltenborn, Nyahongo & Tingstad 2005
9	421	8	“Thirty-seven households admitted to poaching … Poaching households reported killing 4.8 wildebeest in the last 12 months compared to 0.4 wildebeest per non-poaching household.”	Knapp 2007
10	477	10	“The collected data needs to be treated cautiously, because we may have been lacking important information due to fear from respondents.”	Mfunda & Røskaft 2010
27	297	6		Johannesen 2005
29	715	24	“Individuals in households were asked if they were involved in hunting … Many respondents chose not to answer (155 out of 715 responded).”	Campbell et al. 2001
32	300	10	“Respondents were not asked whether they participated in illegal hunting, but many voluntarily claimed to be involved.”“More group respondents than individual respondents claimed to be hunters, demonstrating that results can be influenced by the methods.”	Loibooki et al. 2002

^aData obtained through direct questioning.