Covid-19 expenditure may gnaw at conservation efforts

Concerns have been raised about the ability of governments to maintain commitments to wildlife conservation in the face of competing health, economic, and social priorities. In several countries, arguments for rolling back environmental protections are gaining traction, including provisions that would newly authorize or expand extractive industries and infrastructure in protected and conserved areas, justified in part by initiatives to re-energize economies for a post-COVID-19 world, a UK Government research on the impact of COVID-19 on the illegal wildlife trade has found. With reduced resour…

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