The #Covid19 pandemic has focused public health officials' attention on 'wet markets' in Africa and Asia, where wild animals of many species are butchered side by side, mixing body fluids in a way that any worker with a cut or open wound is exposed to novel pathogens. This has led to calls for all commercial trade in bushmeat, also known as wild-meat, bush tucker or game, to be banned. Much of it is already illegal because it involves meat of protected, endangered species, but for public health reasons the trade in even common species is being called into question. Here, a duiker (a forest antelope) whose fur has been burned off is being butchered in Boma, Democratic Republic of Congo, while bystanders discuss (in French) which species are allowed to be traded. For communities dependent on bushmeat, such a ban would require an immediate alternative protein source to be available if malnutrition and hunger is to be avoided.