Emerging Viral Zoonoses from Wildlife Associated with Animal-Based Food Systems: Risks and Opportunities

Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

“…When budgeting for area-based conservation, we suggest that governments use predictive measures of funding requirements and effects 120 , and that they consider the under-appreciated cost-saving benefits of effective biodiversity conservation. For example, it would be useful to compare the costs arising from the socio-economic devastation caused by zoonotic diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome or coronavirus disease 2019 with those needed to effectively manage area-based conservation networks in a way that reduces supply to illegal wildlife markets 121,122 . There is also an urgent need to better harness industry and philanthropic contributions to area-based conservation, through-for example-improved funding guidelines that ensure that the involvement of private interests does not compromise the siting or management of area-based conservation [123][124][125] .…”

Links Between Ecological Integrity, Emerging Infectious Diseases Originating from Wildlife, and Other Aspects of Human Health - An Overview of the Literature

“…There are multiple interacting lines of evidence that support this conclusion, which is also found in numerous recent reviews of the topic (e.g. Patz et al 2004, Karesh et al 2012, Myers et al 2013, Gottdenker et al 2014, Murray et al 2016, UNEP 2016, Watson et al 2018, DiMarco et al 2020).…”

COVID-19 Highlights the Need for More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation

“…Over the past three decades, most new human pathogens with substantial impacts on human health or economies have originated in wildlife [ 1 , 2 ]. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is among the latest of these zoonotic diseases and is now a pandemic that has resulted in more than a million fatalities globally as of 1 October 2020 ( https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 ).…”