In Africa, the forest is called 'the bush' - meaning that any animal that comes from the forest becomes 'bushmeat' when it is killed and prepared for the table.  Bushmeat can just as easily refer to a common species, legally hunted and eaten, as to an endangered species, protected by national and international laws.  For indigenous African populations, the eating of bushmeat is traditional, and given a small human population and healthy wildlife populations in the existing forests, this would not be a problem.  However, as human populations grow exponentially, and forests disappear rapidly, the eating of bushmeat is no longer a sustainable practice.