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BookletWhite paper: Build back better in a post-COVID-19 world – Reducing future wildlife-borne spillover of disease to humans
Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme
2020Also available in:
This white paper aims to provide Northern and Southern Development partners and decision-makers with a better understanding of a) why spillover of disease from wildlife to humans occurs, and why these zoonotic disease outbreaks can spread and become epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19, and b) what they can do to prevent, detect and respond to future spillover events, with a special focus on priority interventions at the human-wildlife-livestock interfaces. It has been produced as part of the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme, which will deliver critical lessons on how to prevent, detect and respond to future spillover events with appropriate national and transboundary policies and practices in the context of the SWM partner sites. The SWM Programme is a major international initiative to improve the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife in the forest, savannah, and wetland ecosystems. Field projects are being implemented in 13 African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. The aim is to: improve how wildlife hunting is regulated; increase the supply of sustainably produced meat products and farmed fish; strengthen the management capacities of indigenous and rural communities; and reduce demand for wild meat, particularly in towns and cities. It is being implemented by a dynamic consortium of four partners with expertise in wildlife conservation and food security: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). For more information, please visit the SWM Programme website: www.swm-programme.info. -
Policy briefSustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme Policy Brief - Build back better in a post COVID-19 world
Reducing future wildlife-borne spillover of disease to humans
2020Also available in:
We need to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic, to better understand the root causes of zoonotic diseases, in order to prevent future outbreaks and support a green recovery. Approximately 70 percent of emerging infectious diseases today, and almost all recent pandemics, originate from animals and particularly wildlife (e.g. Ebola virus, Lassa virus, and human immunodeficiency virus). Emerging evidence indicates that such outbreaks of animal-borne diseases are on the rise, mostly due to environmental degradation and the intensification of livestock production and trade in livestock and wildlife. Human-wildlife-livestock interactions are increasing as human populations expand, and urbanization and economic activities (such as wildlife trade, husbandry, agriculture, fishing, infrastructure development, mining and logging) encroach into wildlife habitats. This greater proximity enhances the probability of disease spillover from wildlife to humans, or wildlife to livestock to humans. This policy brief provides decision-makers with a set of actionable recommendations that can be implemented to prevent future epidemics caused by the spillover of diseases from wildlife and wild meat. The recommendations are based on an associated White Paper, which assessed: a) why spillover of disease from wildlife to humans occurs, and why these zoonotic disease outbreaks can spread and become epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19; b) what they can do to prevent, detect and respond to future spillover events, with a special focus on priority interventions at the human–wildlife–livestock interfaces. It has been produced as part of the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme, which is an Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) initiative funded by the European Union. *** The SWM Programme is being implemented by a dynamic consortium of four partners with expertise in wildlife conservation and food security: • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) • Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) • French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) • Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) For more information, please visit the SWM Programme website: www.swm-programme.info -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetCOVID-19: Investing in sustainable natural resource management for green and inclusive recovery in Asia and the Pacific 2020
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No results found.Multiple studies have shown that rampant deforestation, ecosystem degradation, and uncontrolled exploitation of wildlife can spread certain diseases to humans, which are increasingly turning into pandemics. With millions of unidentified viruses known to infect people existing in the wild, any one of them could be more disruptive and lethal than COVID-19 . Additional multiple stressors such as recurring droughts, floods and other climatic aberrations further accentuate our ability to battling pandemics, particularly threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions of poor and vulnerable communities who depend on natural resources. Sustainable national natural resource management (NRM) underpins the intrinsic connections between human health, resilient landscapes, economic stability and sustainable livelihoods. To emerge from the current crisis stronger and better, investing in measures that protect and restore nature and that promote inclusive, low emission and resilient development is critical. The pandemic recovery provides a window for the adoption of investments in sustainable NRM in the land, water, forests, and fisheries sectors that can help meet short- term economic recovery and employment as well as strengthening long-term wellbeing and resilience. But there is a risk that decision makers will ignore sustainable alternatives or, despite good intentions, design investments that are poorly targeted and create long-term fiscal burdens. This Policy Brief recommends potential avenues for investing in sustainable NRM that address such risks, and that promote self-reliance, green and inclusive recovery.
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