India rolls back environmental regulations during the pandemic
Live MintIndia was among the 22 countries which has enacted or proposed changes to its environmental regulations during the covid-19 pandemic. The country along with Brazil, and the United States, which have seen heavy load of coronovirus cases, have seen the most instances of rollbacks of these regulations, stated paper, part of a wider report published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature on how protected areas were affected by the pandemic. The report highlighted that the pandemic significantly impacted protected areas around the globe beyond just rollbacks. With the crisis leading to job losses among protected area rangers, reduced anti-poaching patrols, and deaths among indigenous communities living in those lands, these protected areas have become even more vulnerable. The researcher in the paper argued that to diminish the risk of a new pandemic, countries should create new protected areas and make existing ones economically sustainable as new diseases can arise when forests and other wild areas are converted for human use.
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