ArticleHistory and philosophy of the life sciences2020
COVID-19, other zoonotic diseases and wildlife conservation.
Article in History and philosophy of the life sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Environmental Health Risk Evaluation and Potential to Cause Disease X as a Global Pandemic: A Call for Global Preparedness.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Spillover zoonotic 'Langya virus': is it a matter of concern?The veterinary quarterly · 2022Article
- Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2022Article
- Implications of Glycosaminoglycans on Viral Zoonotic Diseases.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Preventing Plague, Bringing Balance: Wildlife Protection as Public Health in the Interwar Union of South Africa.Bulletin of the history of medicine · 2021Article
- Conservation physiology and the COVID-19 pandemic.Conservation physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Many experts have warned that environmental degradation is increasing the likelihood of future pandemics like COVID-19, as habitat loss and poaching increase close contact between wildlife and people. This fact has been framed as a reason to increase wildlife conservation efforts. We have many good reasons to step up conservation efforts, but arguments for doing so on the basis of pandemic prevention are rhetorically, ethically, and empricially flawed.
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