Figure 1.

Summarizing global patterns in the risk of negative consequences of bans on wildlife trade and consumption for 54 countries

Countries at high risk of food insecurity are located in the top right-hand corner (e.g., Côte D’Ivoire and Botswana) and extreme right of the figure (e.g., Madagascar, where per capita protein intake could fall below minimum healthy intake, as recommended by the World Health Organization; as per Figure S1). Countries at highest risk of land use change, biodiversity loss and elevated EID risk are larger red circles. Countries which are both in the top right hand-corner and have larger red circles could face the severest trade-offs between lost protein, or land-use change and a loss of biodiversity to replace the protein. See Tables S1 and S2 for data, and STAR methods for data sources. N.B. Several countries known to have high wild meat consumption (e.g., Sierra Leone, Gabon, DR Congo, Uganda) are not included here due to lack of data, while no food insecurity rank was available for Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Central African Republic.