• Sustainability

“Unsustainable Exploitation of the Environment” Will Lead to More COVIDs

• 30 by 30
• biodiversity
• Campaign for Nature
• CBD
• IPBES
• nature
• zoonotic disease

Yesterday leaders from 190 countries were supposed to have met in Kunming, China for final negotiations on a biodiversity treaty designed to address the world’s urgent extinction and biodiversity crises. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has made attendance of the UN Biodiversity Conference impossible. However, a panel of experts from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and […]

• Animals

Slowing The Spread of Zoonotic Diseases Starts With Humans

• #COVID19
• conservation
• coronavirus
• zoonotic disease

The outbreak of COVID-19 has reminded the world that zoonotic diseases are a major threat to human health. Yet, viruses that spread from animals to humans don’t have to occur in wet markets or through illicit wildlife trade, captive animals can also spread them due to the stress and proximity to humans that occur in […]

• 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.

• Health

Bubonic Plague Emerges in Mongolia and Colorado

• bubonic plague
• Colorado
• Mongolia
• zoonotic disease

As the world is grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization has warned that another infamous killer–the bubonic plague–has made a comeback by categorizing it as a re-emerging disease. As CNN reported, on July 7, Chinese authorities confirmed a case of the bubonic plague in inner Mongolia. and yesterday in an unrelated case, […]

• Animals

Here’s How the US Government Can Help Prevent the Next Pandemic

• biodiversity
• coronavirus
• COVID-19
• MERS
• SARs
• WWF
• zoonotic disease

By Will Gartshore, Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s an old aphorism that still rings painfully true today. Long before Covid-19, the three deadliest pandemics in human history—the bubonic plague, Spanish influenza and HIV/AIDS—claimed more lives than all the […]