We are sharing some links to recent COVID-19 related news articles and papers recommended in the IUCN SULi Digest March and April 2020 Edition.
Wildlife trade and trade bans
- Despite COVID-19, using wild species may still be the best way to save them by Dilys Roe
- Wildlife trade: Regulated markets involving local communities, ‘essential’ to balance humans and nature, Ivonne Higuero, Secretary-General of CITES, speaks to UN News
- Humans Aren’t the Virus by Fiore Longo, Survival International
- Snakes make good food. Banning farms won’t help the fight against coronavirus in The Conversation
- COVID-19-led ban on wild meat could take protein off the table for millions of forest dwellers by Robert Nasi and John E. Fa, CIFOR
- ‘We did it to ourselves’: scientist says intrusion into nature led to pandemic in The Guardian
- To prevent the next pandemic, it’s the legal wildlife trade we should worry about in National Geographic
- COVID-19—the role of wild plants in health treatment and why sustainability of their trade matters from TRAFFIC
- Coronavirus: why a blanket ban on wildlife trade would not be the right response in The Conversation
- Wildlife trade in Mexico, conservation, and pandemics by Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings
Conservation and wildlife tourism
- Poaching fears rise after coronavirus empties Kenya’s national parks in the Financial Times
- Africa fears poaching surge as Covid-19 lockdown wipes out revenues from wildlife tourism in the Telegraph
- The soaring cost of the Coronavirus pandemic for communities and wildlife conservation by Midori Paxton, UNDP Head of Ecosystem and Biodiversity
- COVID underscores the urgency of holistic community-based approaches to conservation (commentary) in Mongabay
- Coronavirus Pandemic Highlights the Vulnerability of African Wildlife Conservation by Catherine E. Semcer, PERC
- As wildlife tourism grounds to a halt, who will pay for the conservation of nature? in Mongabay
- Amidst COVID-19 situation, community conservation must continue from Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association
- The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the safari industry (May update) from Safari Bookings
- Poaching threats loom as wildlife safaris put on hold due to COVID-19 in National Geographic
- Plans to prevent future pandemics must consider gender issues, too (commentary) in Mongabay
- COVID-19: Sustainability and remodelling of the Wildlife Sector webinar on the impact of Covid-19 on Kenya’s wildlife sector
