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Almost two years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, scientific breakthroughs powered by international collaboration have helped us create vaccines and other treatments that can help tackle the health crisis. But our broken relationship with the natural world continues to make us vulnerable to pandemics and that is something that global governments and businesses need to fix.
Both habitat loss and the wildlife trade increase the likelihood that diseases will make the jump from animals to humans.
Opinion by Marco Lambertini, director general of WWF International. Gim Huay Neo, managing director of the World Economic Forum. Elizabeth Mrema, executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity January 17, 2022 via @UNBiodiversity