DOI: 10.21276/sasjs.2018.4.12.1

Pages: 286-296

The Ebola epidemic from 2014 to 2016, which is hitting Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, three West African countries, will lead the Ivorian authorities to develop a prevention plan because of the country's geographical proximity to the first two cities. These measures include a ban on hunting, marketing and consumption of "bushmeat", but despite numerous awareness-raising campaigns and the restrictive nature of this measure, which exposes offenders to penalties ranging from simple fines to prison sentences, hunting, marketing and consumption of game have not diminished. Many individuals and restaurants have maintained this consumption throughout the crisis period.