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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Reverse land use change to prevent zoonoses like COVID-19: UNCCD -Shagun Kapil

Reverse land use change to prevent zoonoses like COVID-19: UNCCD -Shagun Kapil

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published Published on Jun 16, 2020   modified Modified on Jun 19, 2020

-Down to Earth

Land use degradation creates ground for zoonotic disease like COVID-19 as 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,” Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary, UNCCD, said in a statement.

“The global economy is heading for a recession and social relations are changing. The urgency both at the policy and practical levels to slow down and reverse land use change cannot be overstated,” he added.

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Down to Earth, 16 June, 2020, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/reverse-land-use-change-to-prevent-zoonoses-like-covid-19-unccd-71793?fbclid=IwAR395FOo81uVtsKs9zpgeylqSpVnciSc2YN-k9QUlh09DdnK4v4GvY7XuEw


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