Will the COVID-19 outbreak be a turning point for China's wildlife protection: New developments and challenges of wildlife conservation in China

Policymaker perceptions of COVID-19 impacts, opportunities and challenges for sustainable wildlife farm management in Vietnam

“…The wildlife trade in Vietnam is driven by both domestic and international market demand, particularly China ( Huang et al, 2021 ). The previous section shows a decline in the number of traded cases exported from Vietnam to China after COVID-19, but an increase in the number of cases from China to Vietnam; further study is required to understand what is behind this pattern.…”

“…In response to speculative narratives around the virus’s origins being linked to wildlife, increasing efforts have been made to explore and understand wildlife-related food safety ( Alongi, 2020 , Wei, 2020 , Yuan et al, 2020 ), with significant changes in consumer attitudes towards consuming wildlife, particularly in China ( Liu et al, 2020 ). Meanwhile in 2020, Chinese legislature banned all terrestrial wildlife for food consumption ( Huang et al, 2021 ), increasing hopes for China stopping wildlife trade and becoming a model for many countries to follow. Responding to the assumption that COVID-19 arose through some human-environment interaction, causing spillover of the virus from carrier animal(s) to humans ( Soga et al, 2021 ), governments and citizens have been driven to consider how humans might interact with nature in more responsible and sustainable ways.…”

Changing legislative thinking in China to better protect wild animals and human health

“…Local people can greatly improve their lives by hunting wildlife (Duffy et al., 2016). At the same time, the huge market demand in China, as a major consumer of wildlife, has been an important driving force for global wildlife trafficking (Huang et al., 2021).…”

A tool for rapid assessment of wildlife markets in the Asia-Pacific Region for risk of future zoonotic disease outbreaks

“…Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affecting every country in the world, there are renewed calls for urgent controls and even outright bans of the wildlife trade [ 8 , 12 ]. China, arguably the biggest wildlife consuming and trading nation, imposed a broad ban on wildlife trade and markets [ 13 ]. However, there is also opposition to wildlife trade bans from several quarters, citing restrictions on livelihood opportunities and reduced access to food for local communities who depend on wildlife, and concerns that trade will be driven underground [ [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] ] .…”