Article: Want to Stop the Next Pandemic? Start Protecting Wildlife Habitats

 There are four critical facets of pandemic prevention, according to Lee Hannah, senior scientist at Conservation International. Three of them make immediate sense against the backdrop of our current emergency: stockpile masks and respirators; have testing infrastructure ready; and ban the global wildlife trade, including the open animal markets where COVID-19 may have first infected people.

His fourth recommendation is more grandiose: “Take care of nature.”

https://time.com/5817363/wildlife-habitats-disease-pandemics/

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