How should we react to viruses such as covid 19? Will this finally put pressure on governments to stop poachers harvesting wild meat

In many parts of Africa and Asia and South America poor communities get virtually all their protein from wild mammal species that live nearby. As the human population increases and as people organise themselves to sell excess meat in markets this can become a threat to human life as has been shown through covid 19. 

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Alaskan polar bear refuge at greater threat from oil exploration than thought

Polar bears retreat into dens under the snow in order to have their cubs. Until recently this was an entirely sensible thing to do as these stems would survive very effectively until warm enough for the bear’s to emerge.

polar bear cubs disturb from their dens by oil exploration while too small
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