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(Bloomberg) – There are four important aspects of the pandemic prevention, according to Lee Hannah, senior scientists at Conservation International. Three of them make immediate sense in the context of our current emergency: masks and respirators inventory; have the test infrastructure; and ban the global trade in wildlife, including the exceptional animal markets where COVID-19 have first infected humans. The fourth recommendation is formidable: “Take care of nature.” The attack on the ecosystems that COVID-19 allows you to jump from animals to humans far beyond the hunting traders and sales of rare wild animals. Biodiversity, namely the health of the entire ecosystem can keep pathogens before they leave the wild. “We have to say that there are a number of things we must do if we are out of this mess going to make sure it never happens again, people now,” says Hannah. Read more: Do not blame China. The next pandemic could come from anywhere on the role of biodiversity in disease prevention has received in recent times greater attention. In a “state of evaluation of knowledge” of biological diversity and human health through the United Nations in 2015, the researchers concluded that “wrote an ecological approach to the disease, rather than a Verein germ, einen, a Krankheit ‘approach is a richer understanding of the disease are consequences of it. “recent research has given more support to the idea that the protection of biodiversity Prevention in a part of new emerging diseases and jump to another. It ‘a numbers game, sometimes. Not all species in a community are equally susceptible to a particular disease, but they are all equally efficient transmitter. In many ecosystems and human dwellings separately, to make the ebb and flow of viruses, without ever having the chance in the big time. But, as people on the move, these protective mechanisms begin to break. disturbed ecosystems tend to lose their biggest predators before, and what they left leave small creatures that live in a hurry to reproduce in large numbers and have to support the immune system, the disease better able without succumbing to it. If there is left only a few species, are well contribute to disease, and thrive near people, it can not be anything between a lethal pathogen and all humanity. “Virus risk of relapse” of wild animals to humans increases as the contact between them increases, according to a team of researchers led by Christine Johnson Kreuder of the One Health Institute at the University of California, Davis led the research published Tuesday. Almost half of the new diseases that jump from animals to humans (called zoonotic pathogens) after 1940 can be traced to wild animals of land use, agriculture or hunting for change. SARS, Ebola, West Nile, Lyme, MERS and others all fit the profile. Can 10,000 mammalian viruses potentially dangerous for people. “We’re messing with the natural systems so that they are much more dangerous than it would otherwise be able to do,” said Richard Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. “And the loss of biodiversity is one of those. Climate change is another” Read more. The world is not ready for the next pandemic A long-term strategy can help nations to see the benefits to rethink the use of resources. “The revenue from these new forest clearing is extremely high short,” William Karesh, executive vice president, tells EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit research. “But the cost of the public health system is also available because you get very common diseases such as malaria.” And as we now see new zoonotic pathogens can be even more expensive to deal with. Despite years of non-profit creative and intensive work of the resources of governments and organizations, companies measures to mitigate habitat loss Add does not occur. Many large companies have pledged to halt deforestation, the biggest driver of biodiversity loss, through initiatives such as the Consumer Goods Forum, banks Environment Initiative and its Compact soft commodities. “Everyone has missed the target”, according to a new report from the Rainforest Action Network. Hannah, Conservation International, is working to ensure that promote the reasons that biological diversity, including the exciting potential blunting to align with each other endangered elephant in the room: climate change. Hannah and colleagues in February announced insights on what could be the impact of climate conservation objectives and achievement. Using data on 290,000 species may squint into the future and see where ecosystems may be saved from extinction when nations meet 30% of the natural habitats and the United Nations terms of global warming. would make all in all biodiversity losses halved objectives. The international community is positioned to make some progress. The Convention on Biological Diversity is to protect one 196-nation effort, the wealth of living beings, tap the natural resources sustainably, and share the environmental benefits, naturally occurring genetic innovations. (The United States and the Vatican are non-members). The next phase of biodiversity Treaty currently in draft form, that at least 30% of the land and the sea can be saved, compared to 17% in the previous round. If the government is committed to this goal, then the nations and conservation scientists must do the difficult step to understand which 30% is more important to protect and how to do it. The way in which these areas are designed today rarely reflects the scientific ideal of how to protect biodiversity. Looking at the existing protected areas, a document found last month in Nature that 90% of the bird conservation area not, amphibians and mammals the full range of environmental conditions on their existing habitat. “We could develop a much better job of getting things in the right places doing,” says Hannah. “It is right places to fight diseases to be, and can largely overlap the right places for biodiversity.”
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