In addition to the contribution of bushmeat to food security through direct consumption, wild animals and their products are used as condiments to make meals more palatable, thereby improving the capacity of people to eat sufficient quantities of staple foods which are often bland and monotonous. Honey, produced by honey-bees, is regarded as valuable product worldwide. It may be used as a source of food, as a sweetener, as a tonic or medicine, and also as base for producing beverages.
Honey is collected from the wild or produced on bee-keeping farms.
Bee-keeping provides one economic justification for the sustainable management of the natural forests. The honey produced may be consumed locally' transported to city markets for sale or exported. Species Carcas s wt. 0.08 3.60 Buffalo Syncerus caffer 420.0 0.52 218.40 0.21 88.20 0.24 100.8 Baboon Papio anubis 9.0 0.33 2.97 0.58 5.22 0.06 0.54 Est. 16.44 3.90 15.60 Bats Eidolon helvum 0.3 2.93 0.88 10.13 3.04 5.53 1.66 Fying squirrels Anomalurus spp.