Leading US biologist Thomas Lovejoy says to stop future outbreaks we need more respect for natural world
Lovejoy, who coined the term “biological diversity” in 1980, is often referred to as the godfather of biodiversity.
Pictures of WET MARKETS AND WILDLIFE MARKETS — Caged civet cats in a wildlife market in Guangzhou, China.
CHINA RAPES THE WORLD FOR WILDLIFE MEAT TRADE ASSOCIATED WITH “CHINESE MEDICINE“
CHINA CHAIN OF DANGER:
China Traditional Chinese Medicine [zh] (SEHK: 570, mostly via Sinopharm Group Hongkong Co., Ltd. (Incorporated in Hong Kong with Limited Liability) 2015 PDF Report
FOLKLORE: this IS REALLY ABOUT BILLIONS MADE IN TAXES FROM MILLIONS EMPLOYED IN THIS BARBARIC Primitive DISGUSTING CULTURE –
Money laundering and the illegal wildlife trade
Southeast Asia At the heart of wildlife trade
Some 900,000 pangolins trafficked globally with significant proportions linked to Southeast Asia, over 200 tonnes of African Elephant ivory and 100,000 Pig-nosed Turtles seized in recent years: the scale of wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia is incredible and a renewed game plan is needed to combat it.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is coming under some of the greatest pressure it has experienced in its 72-year history – to force the closure of live animal markets to prevent future pandemics. More than 200 conservation groups across the world have signed an open letter calling on the organisation to do all it can to prevent new diseases emerging from wildlife trade and spreading into global pandemics. Scientists say the evidence points to Covid-19 originating from animals – most likely bats – in “wet” markets where live and dead creatures, from dogs and hares to turtles, are sold as food and slaughtered on demand.
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The Chinese Communist Party is supplying WILDLIFE .
Wildlife crime: a $23 billion trade that’s destroying our planet. Beijing is allowing its wildlife traders to sell these and other wild creatures to the world. And not only allowing it but promoting it using tax incentives. China’s “officials are offering tax incentives to the multibillion-dollar animal-products industry to ship some of the creatures overseas, according to Chinese government documents”.
The document, “COVID-19: China Medical Supply Chains and Broader Trade Issues“, reveals that China’s Finance Ministry and its national tax authority had announced on March 17 an increase in the tax rebate on exports of some 1500 products. Including wild animals. Exporters are to receive a rebate of 9 per cent of the value-added tax paid, from March 20. The Congressional Research Service adds, in something of an understatement, that this “could spread the risk to global markets” of more zoonotic viruses, ones that spread from animals to humans.
Chinese authorities’ latest wildlife trade outrage is mindbogglingly reckless
Selling and giving PPE to the rest of the world - helping to save people: A political and propaganda masterstroke by the Chinese Communist Party. "China is trying to bury the embarrassment of the COVID-19 cover-up in a happy story of triumph over the virus," observes American sinologist Andrew Nathan of Columbia University. Naturally.
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EATING WILDLIFE and the WET MARKEt CULTURE is disgusting
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JUST LIKE BINDING CHINESE WOMENS’ FEET WAs fine with the world — UNTIL IT WASN’T-
Bush Meat Markets In Africa, Wet Markets In Asia Behind New Viruses – U.S Scientist
Bats are the source of Corona Virus
Batshit crazy Revolting footage shows Chinese woman eating a whole bat at a fancy restaurant as scientists link the deadly coronavirus to the flying mammals
Eating Bats and Pangolins Banned in Gabon as a Result of Coronavirus Pandemic
The vast illegal wildlife trade and humanity’s excessive intrusion into nature is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leading US scientist who says “this is not nature’s revenge, we did it to ourselves”.
Scientists are discovering two to four new viruses are created every year as a result of human infringement on the natural world, and any one of those could turn into a pandemic, according to Thomas Lovejoy, who coined the term “biological diversity” in 1980 and is often referred to as the godfather of biodiversity.
“This pandemic is the consequence of our persistent and excessive intrusion in nature and the vast illegal wildlife trade, and in particular, the wildlife markets, the wet markets, of south Asia and bush meat markets of Africa… It’s pretty obvious, it was just a matter of time before something like this was going to happen,” said Lovejoy, a senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation and professor of environment science at George Mason University.
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His comments were made to mark the release of a report by the Center for American Progress arguing that the US should step up efforts to combat the wildlife trade to help confront pandemics.
Wet markets are traditional markets selling live animals (farmed and wild) as well as fresh fruit, vegetables and fish, often in unhygienic conditions. They are found all over Africa and Asia, providing sustenance for hundreds of millions of people. The wet market in Wuhan believed to be the source of Covid-19 contained a number of wild animals, including foxes, rats, squirrels, wolf pups and salamanders.
Lovejoy said separating wild animals from farmed animals in markets would significantly lower the risk of disease transmission. This is because there would be fewer new species for viruses to latch on to. “[Domesticated animals] can acquire these viruses, but if that’s all there was in the market, it would really lower the probability of a leak from a wild animal to a domesticated animal.”
“The name of the game is reducing certain amounts of activity so the probability of that kind of leap becomes small enough that it’s inconsequential. The big difficulty is that if you just shut them down – which in many ways would be the ideal thing – they will be topped up with black markets, and that’s even harder to deal with because it’s clandestine.”
The pandemic will cost the global economy $1tn this year, according to the World Economic Forum, with vulnerable communities impacted the most, and nearly half of all jobs in Africa could be lost. “This is not nature’s revenge, we did it to ourselves. The solution is to have a much more respectful approach to nature, which includes dealing with climate change and all the rest,” Lovejoy said.
His comments echo those of a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society earlier this month that suggested the underlying cause of the present pandemic was likely to be increased human contact with wildlife.
‘We did it to ourselves’: scientist says intrusion into nature led to pandemic
Leading US biologist Thomas Lovejoy says to stop future outbreaks we need more respect for natural world
The vast illegal wildlife trade and humanity’s excessive intrusion into nature is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leading US scientist who says “this is not nature’s revenge, we did it to ourselves”.
Scientists are discovering two to four new viruses are created every year as a result of human infringement on the natural world, and any one of those could turn into a pandemic, according to Thomas Lovejoy, who coined the term “biological diversity” in 1980 and is often referred to as the godfather of biodiversity.
“This pandemic is the consequence of our persistent and excessive intrusion in nature and the vast illegal wildlife trade, and in particular, the wildlife markets, the wet markets, of south Asia and bush meat markets of Africa… It’s pretty obvious, it was just a matter of time before something like this was going to happen,” said Lovejoy, a senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation and professor of environment science at George Mason University.
His comments were made to mark the release of a report by the Center for American Progress arguing that the US should step up efforts to combat the wildlife trade to help confront pandemics.
Wet markets are traditional markets selling live animals (farmed and wild) as well as fresh fruit, vegetables and fish, often in unhygienic conditions. They are found all over Africa and Asia, providing sustenance for hundreds of millions of people. The wet market in Wuhan believed to be the source of Covid-19 contained a number of wild animals, including foxes, rats, squirrels, wolf pups and salamanders.
Lovejoy said separating wild animals from farmed animals in markets would significantly lower the risk of disease transmission. This is because there would be fewer new species for viruses to latch on to. “[Domesticated animals] can acquire these viruses, but if that’s all there was in the market, it would really lower the probability of a leak from a wild animal to a domesticated animal.”
He told the Guardian: “The name of the game is reducing certain amounts of activity so the probability of that kind of leap becomes small enough that it’s inconsequential. The big difficulty is that if you just shut them down – which in many ways would be the ideal thing – they will be topped up with black markets, and that’s even harder to deal with because it’s clandestine.”
The pandemic will cost the global economy $1tn this year, according to the World Economic Forum, with vulnerable communities impacted the most, and nearly half of all jobs in Africa could be lost. “This is not nature’s revenge, we did it to ourselves. The solution is to have a much more respectful approach to nature, which includes dealing with climate change and all the rest,” Lovejoy said.
His comments echo those of a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B earlier this month that suggested the underlying cause of the present pandemic was likely to be increased human contact with wildlife.
A civet is a small, lean, mostly nocturnal mammal native to tropical Asia and Africa, especially the tropical forests. The term civet applies to over a dozen different mammal species. Most of the species diversity is found in southeast Asia. It is not a dog, it is not a cat, it is a type of skunk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civet