Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID‐19
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: COVID‐19 has spread around the globe, with massive impacts on global human health, national economies and conservation activities. In the timely editorial about conservation in the maelstrom of COVID‐19, Evans et al. (2020) urged the conservation community to collaborate with other relevant sectors of society in the search for solutions to the challenges posed by the current pandemic, as well as future zoonotic outbreaks. Considering the association of COVID‐19 with bats (Zhou et al., 2020), bat conservationists will undoubtedly be key actors in this dialogue, and thus an action plan on how best to adjust bat conservation to this new reality, alongside a transdisciplinary research agenda, are clear priorities.
Source: Animal Conservation
DOI: 10.1111/acv.12636
Authors: R. Rocha, S. A. Aziz, C. E. Brook, W. D. Carvalho, R. Cooper‐Bohannon, W. F. Frick, J. C.‐C. Huang, T. Kingston, A. López‐Baucells, B. Maas, F. Mathews, R. A. Medellin, K. J. Olival, A. J. Peel, R. K. Plowright, O. Razgour, H. Rebelo, L. Rodrigues, S. J. Rossiter, D. Russo, T. M. Straka, E. C. Teeling, T. Treuer, C. C. Voigt, P. W. Webala
Institutions: University of Lisbon, Universidade do Porto, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, University of California, Berkeley, Universidade Federal do Amapá, University of Stirling, University of California, Santa Cruz, Bat Conservation International, Texas Tech University, University of Vienna, BOKU University, University of Sussex, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, EcoHealth Alliance, Griffith University, Montana State University, University of Exeter, Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, Queen Mary University of London, University of Naples Federico II, Technische Universität Berlin, University College Dublin, University of Vermont, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Maasai Mara University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3081728095