How can the benefits and risks of wild meat consumption be balanced to protect human health, wildlife and the environment?
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Fruit bats have the potential to reforest areas where trees had been lost in parts of Africa.
Following the global spread of COVID, there have been widespread calls for blanket bans on the consumption and trade of wild animals. But such bans may have unintended consequences.
We analysed the legal systems regulating the wildlife trade in China. Here’s what we found.
For conservationists and the government, religion and culture could serve to discourage the overharvesting of bushmeat from the wild
The ex-combatants’ food memories show how they continue trying to make sense of both their past and present experiences of violence.
Needed: less wild meat in cities, more wildlife experts in public health.
Zoonotic diseases can emerge closer to home than you realise.
Emphasizing foreign origins of a disease can have racist connotations and implications for how people understand their own risk of disease.
While identifying a new disease by its place of origin seems intuitive, history shows that doing so can have serious consequences for the people that live there.
The fascination and admiration of the natural environment may draw people closer to it, but it’s crucial to remain responsible about any desire to own a piece.
Top contributors
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Senior Lecturer, Agribusiness, University of Energy and Natural Resources
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Researcher, Linnaeus University
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PhD Candidate in Geography and Epidemiology, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Geography and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College., University of Cambridge
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Professor of Biodiversity and Human Development, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Alborada Lecturer in Epidemiology, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Duke Kunshan University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University
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Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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Regional Director, ILRI Asia, International Livestock Research Institute
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Fellow, International Livestock Research Institute
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Senior Researcher at the CIB based in the Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University
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Professor Food Safety Systems at the Natural Resources Institute (UK) and contributing scientist ILRI, International Livestock Research Institute