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The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by zoonotic SARS-CoV-2, has important links to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. These links range from anthropogenic activities driving zoonotic disease emergence and extend to the pandemic affecting biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, ecosys...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580505/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34774124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00258-8 |
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author | Lawler, Odette K Allan, Hannah L Baxter, Peter W J Castagnino, Romi Tor, Marina Corella Dann, Leah E Hungerford, Joshua Karmacharya, Dibesh Lloyd, Thomas J López-Jara, María José Massie, Gloeta N Novera, Junior Rogers, Andrew M Kark, Salit |
author_facet | Lawler, Odette K Allan, Hannah L Baxter, Peter W J Castagnino, Romi Tor, Marina Corella Dann, Leah E Hungerford, Joshua Karmacharya, Dibesh Lloyd, Thomas J López-Jara, María José Massie, Gloeta N Novera, Junior Rogers, Andrew M Kark, Salit |
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description | The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by zoonotic SARS-CoV-2, has important links to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. These links range from anthropogenic activities driving zoonotic disease emergence and extend to the pandemic affecting biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, ecosystem services, and multiple conservation facets. Crucially, such effects can exacerbate the initial drivers, resulting in feedback loops that are likely to promote future zoonotic disease outbreaks. We explore these feedback loops and relationships, highlighting known and potential zoonotic disease emergence drivers (eg, land-use change, intensive livestock production, wildlife trade, and climate change), and discuss direct and indirect effects of the ongoing pandemic on biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. We stress that responses to COVID-19 must include actions aimed at safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems, in order to avoid future emergence of zoonoses and prevent their wide-ranging effects on human health, economies, and society. Such responses would benefit from adopting a One Health approach, enhancing cross-sector, transboundary communication, as well as from collaboration among multiple actors, promoting planetary and human health. |
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spelling | pubmed-85805052021-11-12 The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health Lawler, Odette K Allan, Hannah L Baxter, Peter W J Castagnino, Romi Tor, Marina Corella Dann, Leah E Hungerford, Joshua Karmacharya, Dibesh Lloyd, Thomas J López-Jara, María José Massie, Gloeta N Novera, Junior Rogers, Andrew M Kark, Salit Lancet Planet Health Personal View The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by zoonotic SARS-CoV-2, has important links to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. These links range from anthropogenic activities driving zoonotic disease emergence and extend to the pandemic affecting biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, ecosystem services, and multiple conservation facets. Crucially, such effects can exacerbate the initial drivers, resulting in feedback loops that are likely to promote future zoonotic disease outbreaks. We explore these feedback loops and relationships, highlighting known and potential zoonotic disease emergence drivers (eg, land-use change, intensive livestock production, wildlife trade, and climate change), and discuss direct and indirect effects of the ongoing pandemic on biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. We stress that responses to COVID-19 must include actions aimed at safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems, in order to avoid future emergence of zoonoses and prevent their wide-ranging effects on human health, economies, and society. Such responses would benefit from adopting a One Health approach, enhancing cross-sector, transboundary communication, as well as from collaboration among multiple actors, promoting planetary and human health. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-11 2021-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8580505/ /pubmed/34774124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00258-8 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Personal View Lawler, Odette K Allan, Hannah L Baxter, Peter W J Castagnino, Romi Tor, Marina Corella Dann, Leah E Hungerford, Joshua Karmacharya, Dibesh Lloyd, Thomas J López-Jara, María José Massie, Gloeta N Novera, Junior Rogers, Andrew M Kark, Salit The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health |
title | The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health |
title_full | The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health |
title_fullStr | The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health |
title_full_unstemmed | The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health |
title_short | The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health |
title_sort | covid-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health |
topic | Personal View |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580505/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34774124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00258-8 |
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