Conservation has Been Hit Hard by Coronavirus – Innovation Is Key to Its Future

in COVID-19, Wildlife Trade

By U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (Manis temminckii) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of every single person on the planet, disrupting social, political, and economic systems and throwing the world into chaos. Wildlife and wildlife conservation, too, have been hit hard by the pandemic. Not only is wildlife trade linked to the start of the virus, the pandemic is also harming conservation efforts across the globe.

Read this op-ed in The Independent by Born Free President, Will Travers OBE, on the need for innovation to save the natural world, and ourselves.

READ THE OP-ED

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