Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19 (Letter)

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Rocha, R
Aziz, SA
Brook, CE
Carvalho, WD
Cooper-Bohannon, R
Frick, WF
Huang, JCC
Kingston, T
López-Baucells, A
Maas, B
Mathews, F
Medellin, RA
Peel, AJ
et al.
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2020
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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 ...
View more >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.
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View more >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.
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Animal Conservation
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© 2020 The Zoological Society of London. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: PW, Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19 (Letter), Animal Conservation, 2020, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12636. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Environmental Sciences
Biological Sciences