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COVID-19 poses challenges for forest communities
Learning to live with SARS-COV2 coronavirus
Chasseur Zorro Ndeli dans la réserve de Tumba – Ledima en République démocratique du Congo. Photo : Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
Investigative work into deadly viruses and wild meat in Africa shines light on the conundrum faced by communities dependent on wild meat for their dietary protein, fat and micronutrients. Learn more about the way deforestation and forest degradation exacerbates the spread of such diseases as COVID-19 and Ebola as they are transmitted from animals to humans, then person to person and what governments can do about it.
19 Sep 2020
U.N. green cities initiative to promote forestry and sustainable food systems A new green cities initiative will encourage governments to kickstart large-scale transformative changes to improve food security, nutrition and the wellbeing of people in and around urban centers, said the director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture...
14 Sep 2020
Can healthy ecosystems prevent pandemics? Charlotte Milbank is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate in epidemiology and geography at Britain’s University of Cambridge. Any views expressed are her own. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown deserved spotlight on the complex interactions and interdependencies...
10 Sep 2020
‘Land and seascapes’ approach gives Galapagos an edge in confronting coronavirus outbreak Scott Henderson is the vice president of the Sustainable Landscapes and Seascapes program at Conservation International. Any opinions expressed are his own. A visitor to the Galápagos Islands at the turn of the millennium would have found an archipelago...
20 Aug 2020
Earth Overshoot Day 2020 arrives later due to pandemic-related slowdown in clearing forests The global coronavirus lockdown has delayed Earth Overshoot Day mainly because of a decrease in wood harvesting and CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, according to the Global Footprint Network. This year, the day lands on Aug. 22, more than three...
17 Jul 2020
Q+A: Rollback of environmental protections continues during COVID-19 pandemic, expert says As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown limits civic participation, some officials are dismantling ecosystem protections, an environmental governance expert has said. Rachel Golden-Kroner, a social scientist with Conservation International who studies the cyclical...
10 Jun 2020
In their own words: COLANDS and landscape collaboration during COVID-19 Family interruptions, poor Internet access, concern for contacts in the field and broad uncertainty — these are just a few of the challenges facing researchers working while under quarantine. Team members from the Collaborating to Operationalize...
6 Jun 2020
Jane Goodall and Robert Nasi: Put forests at forefront of COVID-19 recovery One of the major problems in the world today is food security and the growing human population, said primatologist Jane Goodall on Friday in an address that was broadcast as part of the Global Landscapes Forum from Bonn, Germany. Goodall first gained...
3 Jun 2020
Defining the role of forests, trees, agroforestry to help curb COVID-19 food crisis The emergence of the coronavirus has put the world on the brink of a major famine, according to the World Food Programme (WFP), which says food insecurity is expected to almost double this year to 265 million people. Already, more than 820 million people...
18 May 2020
Will COVID-19 put the kibosh on major in-person conferences for good? The COVID-19 global lockdown has made a big dent in daily carbon emissions, according to a new analysis published in the journal Nature Climate Change. At the peak of social-isolation measures introduced by governments in early April, they decreased by...
5 May 2020
Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blueprint for a healthy planet Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus COVID-19 and Ebola can emerge due to ecosystem imbalances in forests. Over the past few months, this hypothesis has flourished through coverage in the mainstream news media,...
