As many as three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases originate from wildlife.
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How can the benefits and risks of wild meat consumption be balanced to protect human health, wildlife and the environment?
Infectious diseases originating in wild animals are high and may be increasing. This is a sign that ecosystem degradation is undermining the planet’s capacity to sustain human wellbeing.
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.
Many of Africa’s large aquatic animals, such as dolphins, manatees and turtles, are being killed for meat.
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PhD Candidate in Geography and Epidemiology, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor, Environment and Health (MRCG@LSHTM); Senior Lecturer (Ecological Health, Imperial College London), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Researcher, Sustainable Development and Wildlife Conservation, University of Oxford
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Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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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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Programme Management Officer, Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)
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Researcher, Linnaeus University
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Research Fellow in Conservation and Sustainability, University of Kent
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Fellow, International Livestock Research Institute
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Regional Director, ILRI Asia, International Livestock Research Institute
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Professor Food Safety Systems at the Natural Resources Institute (UK) and contributing scientist ILRI, International Livestock Research Institute
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Scientist, International Livestock Research Institute
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Professor of Biodiversity and Human Development, Manchester Metropolitan University