Buying and selling wild animals in market could become a threat for human lives and the lives of animals that are facing possible danger of extinction
Selling wild animals must be banned in order to prevent new epidemics in the future. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the Secretary of UN Convention for Biological Diversity. Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted her as saying.
“We know that over the past 60 years, most of the new diseases that are passed from animals to humans appeared as a result of human activity”, she said.
According to Mrema, “buying and selling wild animals in market could become a threat for human lives and the lives of animals that are facing possible danger of extinction”.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts that the spikes of Covid-19 will be re-emerging until the vaccine appears. David Nabarro, the Special Representative of the Director General of the WHO for coronavirus affairs said so as quoted by NBC News.
“We are not so sure it will come in waves in the way that influenza does. We think it’s going to be a virus that stalks the human race for a quite a long time to come, until we can all have a vaccine that will protect us,” he said. “The key for this particular virus is that every community has a kind of defensive shield, can pick up cases as soon as they appear, isolate them and stop outbreaks from developing. It’s going to be necessary for every single country to have that capacity,” the outlet wrote.
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“Selling wild animals must be banned in order to prevent new epidemics in the future. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the Secretary of UN Convention for Biological Diversity.”
It has been illegal for years, more than 180 countries joined CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Guess what, the Chinks did not ratify the agreement. So it’s time to sanction them, not bring out more useless laws, that can never be implemented.
“buying and selling wild animals in market could become a threat for human lives and the lives of animals that are facing possible danger of extinction”
It is much more than that, which threatens animals, both endangered and non-endangered. Destruction of habitat is a huge problem too. I see the main culprits in developing countries like Brazil and Malaysia, which destroy nature as if this is a national sport. China too is a huge problem. This backward country, for instance, still clings to the belief that tiger balls and rhino horns can make them fuck better, although this is the last thing a highly overpopulated country can use. Just to name one pathetic issue.
I strongly believe that this virus is not the last nor the worst that has come to wreak havoc in our world. China and other antediluvian thinking countries will not learn out this. It is already clear to many people that the true virus in this world is mankind. Sooner or later it’ll be back to business as usual. And the UN will/can do nothing to stop it.