Reverse land use change to prevent zoonoses like COVID-19: UNCCD
India, June 16 -- Land use degradation creates ground for zoonotic disease like COVID-19as the interaction and physical distance between animals and humans gets closer
Land use change, which prepares the ground for zoonoses like the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), should be reversed urgently, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has said.
Over 70 per cent of all natural, ice-free land in the world is affected by human use, according to the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
"In a short space of time, COVID-19, a zoonotic disease, led to the worst economic crisis since the Second World War. A majority of the countries went into lockdown for two months, on average,"...
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