“Saving lives, protecting livelihoods, and safeguarding nature”: risk-based wildlife trade policy for sustainable development outcomes post-COVID-19

H Booth, M Arias, S Brittain, DWS Challender… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge loss of life, and immense social and economic
harm. Wildlife trade has become central to discourse on COVID-19, zoonotic pandemics …

Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development

D Roe, A Dickman, R Kock, EJ Milner-Gulland… - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the immediate responses to COVID-19 has been a call to ban wildlife trade given the
suspected origin of the pandemic in a Chinese market selling and butchering wild animals …

Trading tactics: Time to rethink the global trade in wildlife

N D'Cruze, J Green, A Elwin, J Schmidt-Burbach - Animals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Covid-19 outbreak has brought about fresh and intensified scrutiny of
the wildlife trade, which substantively involves commerce in exotic pets. In response, there …

COVID-19, health, conservation, and shared wellbeing: details matter

RA Montgomery, DW Macdonald - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - cell.com
Many have stridently recommended banning markets like the one where coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) originally spread. We highlight that millions of people around the …

Possible negative consequences of a wildlife trade ban

D Roe, TM Lee - Nature Sustainability, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 outbreak has stimulated calls for a global wildlife trade ban. Such actions
may only partially curb pandemic risk while negatively affecting people who depend on …

COVID-19 highlights the need for more effective wildlife trade legislation

A Borzée, J McNeely, K Magellan, JRB Miller… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Zoonosis-based epidemics are inevitable unless we revisit our relationship with the natural
world, protect habitats, and regulate wildlife trade, including live animals and non …

COVID-19, systemic crisis, and possible implications for the wild meat trade in Sub-Saharan Africa

J McNamara, EJZ Robinson, K Abernethy… - Environmental and …, 2020 - Springer
Wild animals play an integral and complex role in the economies and ecologies of many
countries across the globe, including those of West and Central Africa, the focus of this …

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

E Wikramanayake, DU Pfeiffer, I Magouras, A Conan… - One Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Decades of warnings that the trade and consumption of wildlife could result in serious
zoonotic pandemics have gone largely unheeded. Now the world is ravaged by COVID-19 …

The value of China's ban on wildlife trade and consumption

LP Koh, Y Li, JSH Lee - Nature Sustainability, 2021 - nature.com
China's decision to ban the trade and consumption of terrestrial wild animals, while
controversial, is a viable response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ban has implications that …

[HTML][HTML] Anticipating the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on wildlife

KM Gaynor, JS Brashares, GH Gregory… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The spillover of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 placed the relationship between humans and
wildlife under a global spotlight. The subsequent fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic is now …