Leading US biologist Thomas Lovejoy says to stop future outbreaks we need more respect for natural world
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The vast illegal wildlife trade and humanity’s excessive intrusion into nature is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leading US scientist who says “this is not nature’s revenge, we did it to ourselves”.
Scientists are discovering two to four new viruses are created every year as a result of human infringement on the natural world, and any one of those could turn into a pandemic, according to Thomas Lovejoy, who coined the term “biological diversity” in 1980 and is often referred to as the godfather of biodiversity.
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from MetNews https://metnews.pw/we-did-it-to-ourselves-scientist-says-intrusion-into-nature-led-to-pandemic/
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