Pandemics tied to fragmented forests, biodiversity loss? What science says, and India's response
4 years, 1 month ago

Pandemics tied to fragmented forests, biodiversity loss? What science says, and India's response

Firstpost  

With more than 50 million people infected and 1.32 million dead, the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 is now personal for most people across the world. “The proposed changes make our country more vulnerable to unprecedented environmental disasters by decreasing public participation and giving free rein to polluting industries,” said the National Alliance for People’s Movement in a statement. While welcoming the ban on wildlife trade Wildlife Conservation Society, in a statement said: “In addition, this creates a potential loophole for traffickers who may exploit the non-food exemptions to sell or trade live wildlife, creating additional challenges to law enforcement officers.” The Himalayas, often considered the ‘Third Pole’, is a globally-significant region, a vulnerable ecosystem and a hotspot for biodiversity. “To the best of my knowledge, I don’t think the politicians are thinking about anything beyond the current in-fighting amongst parties,” said former water resource minister of Nepal, Dipak Gyawali. Of the 36 biodiversity hotspots across the world, four are in SouthEast Asia,” said Nibedita Mukherjee, a lead author of the UNEP’s flagship report the Global Environment Outlook- 6th Assessment on the biodiversity policy chapter.

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New National Health Policy for Wildlife: A Holistic Approach to Protecting Biodiversity and Human Health
2 months, 1 week ago

New National Health Policy for Wildlife: A Holistic Approach to Protecting Biodiversity and Human Health

Live Mint  

India is working on a new national health policy for its wildlife, focusing on both biodiversity conservation and the risk of zoonotic diseases. The policy will address wildlife health concerns, including habitat loss, climate change, and pollution, and will also address the risk of zoonotic diseases from animals to humans. The policy will be a comprehensive framework for safeguarding wildlife …

Biodiversity Summit: Lessons from Covid Offer a Warning for the Future
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Biodiversity Summit: Lessons from Covid Offer a Warning for the Future

The Hindu  

Experts and activists at the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, urge world leaders to learn the lessons from the estimated seven million lives lost to Covid and thousands more due to Ebola. They propose a biodiversity and health action plan that includes commitments to limit harmful agriculture and forestry, reduce the use of pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals damaging …

Pandemic preparedness: How FAO is strengthening India's response to zoonotic threats
6 months ago

Pandemic preparedness: How FAO is strengthening India's response to zoonotic threats

Hindustan Times  

On July 6, 1885, French biologist Louis Pasteur administered the first rabies vaccine to a young boy bitten by a rabid dog, marking a pivotal moment in the understanding of zoonotic diseases — those transmitted from animals to humans. The day aims to raise awareness about zoonotic diseases, emphasising their profound impact on global health and highlighting the need for …

Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Unanswered questions, lessons learnt and ongoing challenges
1 year, 2 months ago

Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Unanswered questions, lessons learnt and ongoing challenges

Firstpost  

The COVID-19 pandemic that impacted all aspects of human life, quite literally cancelled the planet. Was any internal advice given to the Government of India that the mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna were better, despite the fact that they were significantly more expensive and difficult to administer? Covishield, developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca in the UK, is similar to previous …

75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, cautions Union Health Secretary
1 year, 2 months ago

75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, cautions Union Health Secretary

The Hindu  

Limited knowledge and skill to identify zoonotic diseases, coupled with limited diagnostic facilities at all levels has resulted in neglect of the infectious diseases due to zoonotic pathogens cautioned Union Health Secretary, Sudhansh Pant, on October 17. Mr. Pant made his comments while delivering the keynote address at the national conclave on “Augmented Zoonotic Diseases Surveillance at Human – Wildlife …

With climate change, tackling new disease scenarios
1 year, 3 months ago

With climate change, tackling new disease scenarios

The Hindu  

In its latest report released this March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers a stark warning: climate change heightens the global risk of infectious diseases. Climate change, more infections Habitat loss forces disease-carrying animals to encroach upon human territory, increasing the risk of human-animal interaction and the transfer of pathogens from wildlife to humans. Mitigating the spread of climate …

Can India’s One Health Mission help tackle the rising number of infectious diseases? | In Focus podcast
1 year, 4 months ago

Can India’s One Health Mission help tackle the rising number of infectious diseases? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

Over the past few years, we’ve heard the names of a lot of new diseases – we had the Zika virus, the Nipah virus and even an Ebola scare, while the coronavirus pandemic rocked the country. India has a huge population, with large numbers of livestock reared and the additional issue of climate change events such as heatwaves and floods …

Leave bats alone in their habitats for a pandemic-free future, says study
1 year, 7 months ago

Leave bats alone in their habitats for a pandemic-free future, says study

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Scientists make the case that pandemic prevention requires a global taboo or ban whereby mankind agreed to leave bats alone, to let them have the habitats they need, undisturbed, in a study published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health. We must change humanity's relationship with nature if we want to prevent the next pandemic of zoonotic origin …

WHO, Believes Disease X Could Create A Pandemic Like Situation, All You Need To Know
1 year, 7 months ago

WHO, Believes Disease X Could Create A Pandemic Like Situation, All You Need To Know

News 18  

As the world gradually returns to a sense of normalcy following the unprecedented challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientific and public health communities remain steadfast in their preparations for future outbreaks and pandemics. As the global community reflects on the challenges and lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, the pursuit of knowledge and preventive measures against future outbreaks …

Man Vs Virus: How scientists are preparing for future pandemics in a Mexican jungle
1 year, 9 months ago

Man Vs Virus: How scientists are preparing for future pandemics in a Mexican jungle

Firstpost  

Scientists collect samples of various animals from the Yucatan jungle in Mexico as part of an investigation aimed at preventing the next potential pandemic. At dusk, it is the turn of bats and even owls Tzucacab: As night fell in Mexico’s Yucatan jungle, veterinarian Omar Garcia extracted blood and fluids from a bat as part of an investigation aimed at …

America is 'fundamentally unprepared' for zoonotic diseases
1 year, 10 months ago

America is 'fundamentally unprepared' for zoonotic diseases

Daily Mail  

With the US teetering on the brink of nuclear war with Russia and gloomy warnings about climate change, many believe these events could end the human race. In an editorial published today, they claimed America is 'fundamentally unprepared', despite the Covid pandemic being so fresh in people's minds, as well as the recent bird flu and Marburg virus outbreak scares. …

Lessons From COVID: What The World Needs to Learn to Tackle Future Pandemics
1 year, 11 months ago

Lessons From COVID: What The World Needs to Learn to Tackle Future Pandemics

The Quint  

The costly lesson from COVID: why elimination should be the default global strategy for future pandemics Getty Images Imagine it is 2030. An upgraded pandemic response to eliminate at source The process by which the WHO currently decides whether to declare a public health emergency of international concern has drawn criticism for being too slow. Elimination makes sense for other …

Working towards animal health
2 years, 5 months ago

Working towards animal health

The Hindu  

The developments unleashed by COVID-19 have once again put the spotlight on the pressing need to create greater collaborations and synergies between research on human health and animal health. To create a robust pandemic preparedness model, it is imperative to juxtapose the data on animal health with the available data on human health. Creating a successful model A successful animal …

Monkeypox UK: Why climate and biodiversity crisis means we can expect more viruses like
2 years, 5 months ago

Monkeypox UK: Why climate and biodiversity crisis means we can expect more viruses like

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Climate change is unlikely to affect all diseases and areas consistently, and will also interact with other factors such …

Hotter Climate Could Cause Spread of Thousands of Viruses from Animals to Humans, Study Predicts
2 years, 8 months ago

Hotter Climate Could Cause Spread of Thousands of Viruses from Animals to Humans, Study Predicts

News 18  

The world has seen how the novel coronavirus that jumped into humans wreaked an unprecedented havoc across countries in the last two years. Now, a new modelling study has estimated how the ongoing climate change could further raise the risk of such infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans in the coming years, especially in Southeast Asia. “We need to …

Why protecting the planet is essential to preventing future pandemics
2 years, 11 months ago

Why protecting the planet is essential to preventing future pandemics

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Marco Lambertini is director general of WWF International. The latest World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report reveals that world leaders now rank biodiversity loss as one of the most severe risks facing humanity in the coming decade, alongside climate action failure and extreme weather events. Too many Covid-19 recovery plans have so far demonstrably failed to place …

Boosting India's surveillance potential for pandemic preparedness
3 years ago

Boosting India's surveillance potential for pandemic preparedness

Hindustan Times  

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues and more variants of Sars-CoV-2 emerge like the Omicron one, each may have the potential to further disrupt public health systems and slow progress to end the pandemic. India recognised the critical need for enhanced surveillance early in the pandemic but like most nations, took time in substantially scaling up of these efforts across the …

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins

Associated Press  

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. “The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the …

Where will the next pandemic begin? The Amazon rainforest offers troubling clues
3 years, 1 month ago

Where will the next pandemic begin? The Amazon rainforest offers troubling clues

LA Times  

The 10-year-old took off running down a dirt road in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, turning cartwheels, playing tag and picking fistfuls of wild bougainvillea. “To survive, we need to use what we have,” said Darah Lady’s father, 60-year-old Aladino Oliveira da Costa, who toppled old-growth forest to build homes for each of his four older children. “Oh, it’s …

China's wildlife is a pandemic waiting to happen,' study finds
3 years, 1 month ago

China's wildlife is a pandemic waiting to happen,' study finds

Deccan Chronicle  

Wildlife species sold in wet markets in China were linked to the emergence of SARS and Covid-19. A study of more than a dozen species of game animals traded, sold and commonly consumed as exotic food in China identified 71 mammalian viruses, including 18 deemed “potentially high-risk” to people and domestic animals. “This study highlights exactly why the wildlife trade …

World Nature Conservation Day 2021: COVID-19 pandemic an urgent reminder for India to implement One Health concept
3 years, 5 months ago

World Nature Conservation Day 2021: COVID-19 pandemic an urgent reminder for India to implement One Health concept

Firstpost  

Today is World Nature Conservation Day, our annual reminder that we share the planet with millions of species of flora and fauna that we must respect and make every effort to preserve. The World Nature Conservation Day feeds into most of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. The Forest Survey of India conducted in 2019 estimates a total of 807,276 …

Has Climate Change Impacted Past and Present Pandemics?
3 years, 7 months ago

Has Climate Change Impacted Past and Present Pandemics?

News 18  

Until now, there has been no direct evidence to prove a correlation between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, although there is a growing consensus among the scientific community that climate change affects the ways species interact, humans and species migrate, and humans face the risk of infectious diseases, which are likely to be significant factors in propelling pandemics. According …

Conservation requires some amount of human presence on ground
3 years, 7 months ago

Conservation requires some amount of human presence on ground

Live Mint  

The past year has been difficult for wildlife conservation organisations and enforcement agencies. The latter, in fact, started the Conservation Heroes COVID Casualty Fund in May for wildlife warriors and forest staff impacted by the pandemic. Kartick Satyanarayan, the co-founder and CEO of Wildlife SOS, says that while forest officials haven’t been able to reach out to people and communities …

Wild Recovery: Protecting nature and preventing the next pandemic
3 years, 8 months ago

Wild Recovery: Protecting nature and preventing the next pandemic

Al Jazeera  

earthrise looks at protecting wildlife and preventing pandemics through the stories of two endangered mammals which have been investigated for links to COVID-19. In southern India, locals are safeguarding the only remaining home of one critically endangered bat. And disease ecologist, Jonathan Epstein, explains how our encroachment on nature is making another outbreak “almost guaranteed”. With films made by Untamed …

Cholera to Covid-19: Why Indians Have Selective Amnesia About the History of Pandemics
3 years, 9 months ago

Cholera to Covid-19: Why Indians Have Selective Amnesia About the History of Pandemics

News 18  

As COVID-19 upturned our world, it felt like it came out of nowhere. As Chinmay Tumbe’s brilliant new book, Age of Pandemics, shows, these cataclysmic events have been a significant part of India’s modern history. Part of the reason for this amnesia, Tumbe argues, is that the world hasn’t experienced a catastrophe of this scale since the influenza pandemic. Even …

Scientists work out ways to prevent next pandemic
4 years ago

Scientists work out ways to prevent next pandemic

Live Mint  

As 2021 begins with covid-19 continuing its global spread, scientists have spotlighted three approaches to reduce the risk of potential diseases – screening animals, reducing land-use change and improving health infrastructure. Following several multidisciplinary studies in 2020, scientists now firmly believe a “perfect storm” for an outbreak with pandemic potential is created by the combined forces of land-use change, high …

Wildlife, land-use change and health infra: Scientists identify ways of preventing next pandemic
4 years ago

Wildlife, land-use change and health infra: Scientists identify ways of preventing next pandemic

Hindustan Times  

How to prevent the next pandemic? As 2021 begins with Covid-19 continuing its global spread, scientists have spotlighted three approaches to at least reduce the risk of pandemic potential diseases – screening animals, reducing land-use change and improving health infrastructure. Manuel Ruiz, wildlife veterinarian at Montana State University in the US, added that one of the best ways to prevent …

2020 saw environment bounce back to its glory, even if temporarily
4 years ago

2020 saw environment bounce back to its glory, even if temporarily

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic battered and bruised the world in 2020, teaching the value of human life, but an evident positive impact was that it helped the environment bounce back to its glory, even if temporarily. Fear of the impact of Covid-19 on the world economy also caused the government to worry about achieving the climate goals under the Paris Agreement …

Chinmay Tumbe on his new book that investigates major pandemics, and how they influenced India, the world
4 years, 1 month ago

Chinmay Tumbe on his new book that investigates major pandemics, and how they influenced India, the world

Firstpost  

In ‘The Age of Pandemics’, Tumbe specifically focuses on the period between 1817 to 1920, which witnessed nearly five percent of the mid-point global population —or 70 million people — being wiped out by pandemics. But for an epidemic to become a pandemic, both time and space are equally important, that is, the disease has to spread across a sufficiently …

The story of India's fight against Covid
4 years, 1 month ago

The story of India's fight against Covid

India Today  

On January 30, 2020, India confirmed its first coronavirus case in Kerala, but until the beginning of March, the Indian people hadn’t paid much attention to the virus. A new book, called Till We Win: India’s Fight against the Covid-19 Pandemic, co-authored by three medical experts—Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, an epidemiologist, Dr Gagandeep Kang, a vaccine expert, and Dr Randeep Guleria, …

Up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature: UN report
4 years, 2 months ago

Up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature: UN report

Firstpost  

The report says an estimated 1.7 million currently undiscovered viruses are thought to exist in mammal and avian hosts. A major report released today says up to 850,000 undiscovered viruses which could be transferred to humans are thought to exist in mammal and avian hosts. Without preventative strategies, pandemics will emerge more often, sp The report says, on average, five …

Treat nature right or future pandemics will wreck more havoc than COVID-19 did says UN panel
4 years, 2 months ago

Treat nature right or future pandemics will wreck more havoc than COVID-19 did says UN panel

Firstpost  

Seventy percent of emerging diseases — such as Ebola, Zika and HIV/AIDS — are zoonotic in origin, meaning they circulate in animals before jumping to humans. “There is no great mystery about the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic — or any modern pandemic,” said Peter Daszak, president of the Ecohealth Alliance and chair of the IPBES workshop that drafted the …

Next pandemic? Amazon deforestation may spark new diseases
4 years, 2 months ago

Next pandemic? Amazon deforestation may spark new diseases

Al Jazeera  

Changes in the Amazon are driving displaced species of animals, from bats to monkeys to mosquitoes, into new areas. ‘Spillover’ Cecilia Andreazzi, a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a major public health institute in Brazil, said the current surge in deforestation and fires in the Amazon can lead to new meetings between species on the move – each a …

Coronavirus: Millions of wild animals imported to UK from hot spots of emerging disease, risking new pandemics, study warns
4 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus: Millions of wild animals imported to UK from hot spots of emerging disease, risking new pandemics, study warns

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Millions of live wild animals are being legally imported into …

Destroying Natural Habitats Bring Pandemic Causing Pathogens Closer to Humans
4 years, 5 months ago

Destroying Natural Habitats Bring Pandemic Causing Pathogens Closer to Humans

News 18  

For time immemorial, humans have been changing the ecosystem according to their convenience. Apart from bringing us closer to global warming, these activities are also bringing disease-hosting and carrying pathogens closer to our lives, as claimed by a study. A team of researchers from the University College London, UK, has established that human-managed ecosystems serve as a gate to several …

Intensive agriculture raises future pandemic risk, with animals and people in close contact: Study
4 years, 5 months ago

Intensive agriculture raises future pandemic risk, with animals and people in close contact: Study

Firstpost  

COVID-19 is almost certain to have originated in animals before passing to and spreading among humans. Intensive farming makes future pandemics such as COVID-19 more likely as wild animals carrying diseases known to infect humans are forced into increasingly close contact with us, research showed Wednesday. Land used for farming is expanding every year, often to the detriment of natural …

Diseases like COVID-19 that jump from animals to people driven by habitat loss: UN report
4 years, 6 months ago

Diseases like COVID-19 that jump from animals to people driven by habitat loss: UN report

Firstpost  

Unsustainable agriculture practices, expansion of infrastructure and resource mining at the expense of wild spaces has severely limited our ability to prevent these diseases. Apart from the coronavirus-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, other pathogens that were responsible for these ‘zoonotic diseases’ in the past include infamous epidemic agents like Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome, HIV/AIDS and West Nile virus. “The science is …

What the pandemic has taught us | Opinion
4 years, 6 months ago

What the pandemic has taught us | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic has taught India several painful lessons. Despite WHO coming in for criticism, India must continue cooperating with it and take advantage of its expertise The second lesson is that India needs a drastic restructuring of its developmental plans which involves allocating at least 3% of the Gross Domestic Product each to health and education. It is also …

'Like Poking a Beehive': The Worrisome Link Between Deforestation And Disease
4 years, 6 months ago

'Like Poking a Beehive': The Worrisome Link Between Deforestation And Disease

NPR  

'Like Poking a Beehive': The Worrisome Link Between Deforestation And Disease Enlarge this image toggle caption Zoë van Dijk for NPR Zoë van Dijk for NPR In 2013, an 18-month-old boy got sick after playing near a hollow tree in his backyard in a remote West African village. Sponsor Message "When you disturb a forest, it actually upsets, if you …

Human exploitation of nature is driving pandemics like coronavirus, say UN and WHO
4 years, 6 months ago

Human exploitation of nature is driving pandemics like coronavirus, say UN and WHO

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Humanity’s broken relationship with nature has led to the coronavirus and other pandemics will follow, …

June 17, 2020 coronavirus news
4 years, 6 months ago

June 17, 2020 coronavirus news

CNN  

Health officials from various nations met in a World Health Organization webinar on Wednesday to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on fights against neglected tropical disease around the world. “In Rwanda, like many other countries in the world, we are fighting one enemy which is Covid-19 but other health essential programs may be also important to watch and follow so …

World Environment Day 2020: How natural habitat destruction can fuel zoonotic diseases like COVID-19
4 years, 7 months ago

World Environment Day 2020: How natural habitat destruction can fuel zoonotic diseases like COVID-19

Firstpost  

Experts have found links to the emergence of viruses like Nipah, Lassa, Hendra, COVID-19, HIV, and others to deforestation. The COVID-19 pandemic “is likely a global effect of natural habitat destruction combined with the effects of globalisation,” says Maria Cristina Rulli, professor at the department of civil and environmental engineering at Politecnico di Milano, who has worked extensively on the …

Coronavirus: Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases and risks more pandemics, experts warn
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus: Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases and risks more pandemics, experts warn

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade …

The Coronavirus Could Set Conservation Efforts Back By Years
4 years, 8 months ago

The Coronavirus Could Set Conservation Efforts Back By Years

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING As the clouds dumped rain across Southern California’s Santa Clara River region, research biologist Tom Dudley watched from his house and worried. “In California, when you get rain, that’s when all the plants start growing, so the weeds are really germinating heavily,” said Dudley, who leads restoration projects under the Marine Science Institute at the University of …

Coronavirus: Pandemics will be worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Pandemics will be worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity.” They warn: “Rampant …

Coronavirus: Timeline of pandemics and other viruses that humans caught by interacting with animals
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Timeline of pandemics and other viruses that humans caught by interacting with animals

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Since the 1970s, it is estimated at least three dozen …

Coronavirus | Why pathogens travel in search of a host
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | Why pathogens travel in search of a host

The Hindu  

The story so far: Long before the virus causing COVID-19 vitiated for the world many efficiencies it had taken for granted, it pit many over claims about how the vicious virus came to be in the first place. Moreover, commenting on the fact that bats and pangolins might have spread the infection, the authors said: “Given the similarity of SARS-CoV-2 …

When a virus jumps: of man, microbes and pandemics
4 years, 8 months ago

When a virus jumps: of man, microbes and pandemics

Live Mint  

Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, said last month that nature was sending humankind a “message” through the coronavirus pandemic and climate crisis. “Warm climate keeps becoming warmer and that’s what we have to prepare ourselves for.” ‘FLIGHT AS FEVER’ In the past, researchers have traced the origins of some of the deadliest animal-borne disease outbreaks to …

‘We have to find a different way of living’: Jane Goodall on the covid-19 crisis
4 years, 8 months ago

‘We have to find a different way of living’: Jane Goodall on the covid-19 crisis

Live Mint  

Renowned British primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall laughs when I ask if the world will be better prepared to face pandemics and other disease outbreaks that might hit us in the future. Goodall’s behavioural research on chimpanzee populations in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, starting 1960, remains a pioneering piece of work on understanding more about the closest …

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