• Health

Study Shows Spending On Conservation For Pandemic Prevention Yields Huge Benefits

• Conservation International
• COVID-19
• pandemic
• wildlife trade
• wildlife trafficking
• zoonotic disease

A new study published in the Journal Science yesterday found that the costs preventing pandemics using three conservation strategies are substantially less than the economic losses and mortality costs of responding to a global zoonotic virus once it occurs.

Why This Matters:  As the study’s authors explain, the risks of zoonotic disease are higher than ever as increasingly intimate associations between humans and wildlife disease reservoirs accelerate the potential for viruses to spread globally.

• Sustainability

WEF: New Report Finds That Failing To Conserve Nature Is Risky Business

• #conservtion
• Conservation International
• COVID-19
• environment
• GDP
• nature
• World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is issuing three reports this year, and it published the second one yesterday in which it argues that addressing the global nature crisis requires “a critical shift towards nature-positive models in three key socio-economic systems: food, land and ocean use; infrastructure and the built environment; and extractives and energy.” 

Why This Matters:  This analysis makes clear what needs to be fixed to get the most benefit for biodiversity — agriculture — and why making the changes will be good for the global economy and jobs.

• People

Interview of the Week: M. Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation International

• #30x30
• #conservationist
• Conservation International
• COVID-19
• environment
• extinction
• habitat
• nature based solutions

ODP: COVID-19 has caused so much suffering here and around the globe.  What is the leading cause of diseases that spread from wildlife to humans? MS: COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease. Like HIV, MERS, SARS, Hanta, and Ebola, it jumped from wildlife to people, likely through contact with an animal outside of its natural habitat. […]

• Sustainability

Coronavirus – How to Get Out of This Madness

• #30x30
• conservation
• Conservation International
• COVID-19
• deforestation
• MERS
• SARs
• science
• wildlife

by Lee Hannah, Senior Scientist, Conservation International Right now, money is flowing from Capitol Hill to provide us with much needed economic support in response to the coronavirus pandemic. As this happens, we need to make sure that money also flows towards preventing similar pandemics from happening in the future. To stop this cycle of […]

• Sustainability

Shrinking Protected Areas Causing Biodiversity Concerns to Rise

• #30x30
• #CampaignforNature
• Amazon
• biodiversity
• Campaign for Nature
• Conservation International
• endangered species
• habitat
• parks
• protected areas
• United Nations

A new report from Conservation International published today in Science documents that governments have removed more than 500,000 square kilometers from protected areas and downgraded the protection for an additional 1.65 million square kilometers, the majority of which are associated with industrial-scale development.

• People

Earth Week Exclusive Interview with Dr. M. Sanjayan, CEO Conservation International

• climate change
• climate movement
• Conservation International
• Earth Week
• marine protected areas
• nature
• plastic

For more than 30 years, Conservation International has been protecting nature across the globe — they are currently working with 2000 partners in 30 countries to build a healthier, more prosperous and more productive planet. ODP:  Sanjayan, as the leader one of the largest conservation organizations in the world, what are the biggest challenges you […]