Julia E. Fa

A woman cutting up cooked wild meat. Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF/Flickr

June 8, 2025

Eating wild meat carries serious health risks – why it still happens along the Kenya‑Tanzania border

Ekta Patel, International Livestock Research Institute and Julia E. Fa, Manchester Metropolitan University

As many as three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases originate from wildlife.

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October 29, 2020

Three ways to head off the next pandemic in the wild meat trade

Julia E. Fa, Manchester Metropolitan University

Needed: less wild meat in cities, more wildlife experts in public health.

Maasai women on a conservation project in Kenya. Joan de la Malla

July 17, 2018

Indigenous peoples are crucial for conservation – a quarter of all land is in their hands

Stephen Garnett, Charles Darwin University; Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, University of Helsinki; Cathy Robinson, CSIRO; Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Hayley Geyle, Charles Darwin University; Ian Leiper, Charles Darwin University; James Watson, The University of Queensland; Julia E. Fa, Manchester Metropolitan University; Kerstin Zander, Charles Darwin University; Micha V Jackson, The University of Queensland; Pernilla Malmer, Stockholm University; Tom Duncan, Charles Darwin University, and Zsolt Molnár, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

A new map shows that more than 25% of all land outside Antarctica is held and managed by Indigenous peoples. This makes these communities vital allies in the global conservation effort.

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Eating wild meat carries serious health risks – why it still happens along the Kenya‑Tanzania border

Three ways to head off the next pandemic in the wild meat trade

Indigenous peoples are crucial for conservation – a quarter of all land is in their hands

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