Most laws ignore ‘human-wildlife conflict’. This makes us vulnerable to pandemics
- Written by Katie Woolaston, Lawyer, Queensland University of Technology
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Never before have we seen how the human use of wildlife can yield such catastrophe, as we have with COVID-19.
The current available evidence indicates COVID-19 was first transmitted in a wildlife market in Wuhan. The disease likely originated in pangolins, bats, or a combination of both and was then transmitted to humans.
While various...
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