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Save wildlife, save forests, and avoid pandemics | News – Eco-Business
Covid-19 emerged from the wilderness. That alone is reason to protect the forests, control trade in wildlife – and avoid pandemics.
If the world wants to avoid pandemics like Covid-19 in future, it has a lot to learn. This coronavirus outbreak is likely to cost the world somewhere between $8 trillion and $15 trillion.
It might have been 500 times cheaper, say US scientists, simply to have done what conservationists have sought for years: control trade in wildlife and stop destroying tropical forests.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus also known as Covid-19 is a new human infection that has been traced back to bats apparently traded as …
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