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The collapse of international tourism due to efforts to slow spread of the coronavirus has led to heavy revenue losses for many wildlife parks, cutting budgets and threatening longer-term closures.
More than half of protected areas in Africa had been forced to halt or reduce field patrols and anti-poaching operations. A quarter of protected sites in Asia have had to reduce conservation activities.
Bush meat hunting has also increased significantly due to both patrol reductions and growing poverty.
A comment from me: this also shows how disastrous to biodiversity would be drop of international tourism due to enforced carbon neutrality, or due to shrinking of the middle class in the West.
More than half of protected areas in Africa had been forced to halt or reduce field patrols and anti-poaching operations. A quarter of protected sites in Asia have had to reduce conservation activities.
Bush meat hunting has also increased significantly due to both patrol reductions and growing poverty.
Wildlife protections, especially in Africa, cut sharply during pandemic -IUCN conservation group
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic is undermining nature conservation efforts, cutting park and anti-poaching patrols in more than half of Africa's protected sites, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said on Thursday. The collapse of international...
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A comment from me: this also shows how disastrous to biodiversity would be drop of international tourism due to enforced carbon neutrality, or due to shrinking of the middle class in the West.