Wildmeat consumption and zoonotic spillover: contextualising disease emergence and policy responses

C Milbank, B Vira - The Lancet Planetary Health, 2022 - thelancet.com
Zoonotic diseases are estimated to constitute 75% of all emerging infectious diseases, of
which more than 70% come from wild species. The potential threat of zoonotic spillover from …

Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes

DWS Challender, D Brockington, A Hinsley… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Overexploitation is a key driver of biodiversity loss but the relationship between the use and
trade of species and conservation outcomes is not always straightforward. Accurately …

Mammals, wildlife trade, and the next global pandemic

KN Shivaprakash, S Sen, S Paul, JM Kiesecker… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Most new infectious diseases emerge when pathogens transfer from animals to humans. 1,
2 The suspected origin of the COVID pandemic in a wildlife wet market has resurfaced …

Envisioning a resilient future for biodiversity conservation in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic

RH Thurstan, KJ Hockings, JSU Hedlund… - People and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the COVID‐19 pandemic continues to affect societies across the world, the ongoing
economic and social disruptions are likely to present fundamental challenges for current and …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the risks of removing wild meat from global food systems

H Booth, M Clark, EJ Milner-Gulland… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought humanity's strained relationship with nature into sharp
focus, with calls for cessation of wild meat trade and consumption, to protect public health …

Quantifying global colonization pressures of alien vertebrates from wildlife trade

Y Li, TM Blackburn, Z Luo, T Song, F Watters… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The global trade in live wildlife elevates the risk of biological invasions by increasing
colonization pressure (the number of alien species introduced to an area). Yet, our …

Indonesia's sustainable development goals in relation to curbing and monitoring the illegal wildlife trade

V Nijman, A Abdullah, E Adinda… - Sustainable …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Indonesia has committed to implement the sustainable development goals (SDG) by 2030
including the ending trafficking of protected species and addressing the illegal wildlife …

Forests, trees and poverty alleviation: Policy implications of current knowledge

DC Miller, S Mansourian, M Gabay, R Hajjar… - Forest Policy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Major advances have been made over the past two decades in our understanding of the
contribution forests and trees outside forests make to human well-being across the globe …

An assessment of potential interventions to reduce the totoaba illegal trade market

R Oyanedel, E Aceves‐Bueno, L Davids… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The illegal trade in totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) is causing adverse social, ecological, and
economic impacts. This illegal activity is accelerating the overexploitation of totoaba and …

[HTML][HTML] A tool for rapid assessment of wildlife markets in the Asia-Pacific Region for risk of future zoonotic disease outbreaks

E Wikramanayake, DU Pfeiffer, I Magouras, A Conan… - One Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Decades of warnings that the trade and consumption of wildlife could result in serious
zoonotic pandemics have gone largely unheeded. Now the world is ravaged by COVID-19 …