The coronavirus pandemic creates an opportunity to rethink generally accepted underperforming business-as-usual approaches to conservation, say more than 20 conservation and development professionals in an editorial published by environmental news provider Mongabay.
Current approaches should prioritize locally managed ecosystems, they state.
Initial efforts to address the environmental impacts and origins of COVID-19 are frequently oversimplified and ineffective, highlighting ongoing problems with conventional conservation initiatives, the scientists write, adding that often, these approaches narrow in on one part of a problem without considering situational factors at the community level.
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