Current Management

The first graph shows the market value of
porcupine and poultry vs. the length of
time traveled from Libreville(Gabon). The
second graph shows the percentage of
meals that have porcupine or poultry vs.
the length of time traveled.
Purple is porcupine and yellow is poultry.

There are a lot of efforts to get the public's awareness on the severity of hunting bushmeat. US Fish and Wildlife is involved in several groups all devoted to ending this crisis. Unfortunately this is a fairly new problem, only in the last few decades has it become a very serious threat, so a lot of the current management efforts are only on the awareness stage. Getting the local peoples aware of the problem and getting the local community leaders involved are pretty common. Increasing infrastructure and agriculture, though not directly used as conservation efforts for bushmeat, have been shown to decrease the consumption of illegal meat for favor of cheaper beef(Millner-Gulland et al, 2003). The roads make it easier for cheaper meat to make it to the more remote places in the tropical forests and the increased farming just means there is more and more cattle in the areas. Even though infrastructure and roads have been linked to the increase in bushmeat hunting, the graphs to the right clearly show that less bushmeat is consumed in the cities than in villages, mainly because of the price of the meat.

Current organizations are doing a lot of work to bring the bushmeat crisis into a national and global spotlight, such as the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force. The mission of the task force is "To build a public, professional and government constituency aimed at identifying and supporting solutions that effectively respond to the bushmeat crisis in Africa and around the world." Their website is very user-friendly and easy to navigate and includes a wide range of information on bushmeat and species  affected.
http://www.bushmeat.org/