WASHINGTON (AP) – Biologist Carlos Ruiz has spent a quarter of a century running to save the golden lion puppets, the charismatic long-bred monkeys living in Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest. Thanks to meticulous reforestation efforts, the population of these endangered monkeys rose to a yellow epidemic. The fever hit Brazil in 2018, ending up with a third of the tamarinds. Undeterred, Ruiz’s team devised an ambitious new experiment: this spring, they would begin vaccinating many of the remaining wild monkeys. Enter the coronavirus, which now hampers critical paints to protect endangered species and habitats around the world. First, Members of Ruiz’s team exposed to the virus had to be quarantined. The government then closed national parks and protected the spaces from the public and researchers in mid-April, banning scientists from accessing tamarind reserves. “We’re worried about not having the opportunity to save the species,” Ruiz, president of the nonprofit Golden Lion Tamarin, said. “We hope that weArray … we can still do our homework before a wave of yellow fever arrives.” Although scientists adhere to government guidelines, they know that others who intend to illegally exploit tropical forests still enter the parks because various movements (activated search chambers) have been destroyed.
Tamarin Lion Monkey with Golden Head (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)
Around the world, government resources diverted from pandemic efforts have opened up opportunities for illegal land logging and poaching. Closures have also derailed ecotourism, which budgets for many environmental projects, from the rainforests of South America to the African savannahs. Stuart Pimm, founder of the non-profit Saving Nature. “But I can’t think of another time when almost as many one and both countries on the planet have faced the effects of the same wonderful disaster at once.” In Guatemala, the indigenous communities that monitor tropical forests are suffering from involving one of the worst chimney seasons in two “Ninety-nine% of those chimneys start through people, and this is basically done intentionally to open an area to illegal livestock breeding.” said Erick Cuellar, deputy director of a network alliance. Organizations of the Maya Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala called Association of Forest Communities of Petén. “Tropical forests are rich in biodiversity, so we are wasting rare flora and fauna,” said Jeremy Radachowsky, director of Mesoameri ca at the non-profit Wildlife Conservation Society. “The scenario is different in the country, however, the reduced application of environmental legislation is not an unusual concern.”
Bengal Tiger Walks (Photo Credit: DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP Getty Images)
In Nepal, forest-related crimes, such as illegal logging, have more than doubled since the closure began, adding five parks that host endangered Bengal tigers, according to the government and the World Wildlife Fund. In many African countries, wildlife tourism provides a significant source of income. to house parks where vulnerable species such as elephants, lions, rhinos and giraffes live. But after the coronavirus hit, “the entire foreign tourism sector virtually closed overnight in March,” said Peter Fearnhead, chief executive of African Parks, which runs 17 national parks and “saw that $7.5 million was suddenly erased from our profit account for the year. “He said, “he added that ecotourism next year could recover only a part of the past levels. To deter potential poachers, the Fearnhead team lowers prices by holding Meetings in Zoom and also achieving potential foreigners “A protected domain that is not actively controlled will be lost,” he said.
Giraffe navigates a thicket (Photo via TONY KARUMBA / AFP Getty Images)
Jennifer Goetz, an online co-founder who provides data on moral travel packages, said many safari operators in Africa expect some profit and urge consumers to postpone their bookings. nearly two-thirds said most of their reserves had been postponed, not cancelled. Tropical biologist Patricia Wright points out that conservation is not a task that can be abandoned for a while and then resumed “because it depends so much on appointments with Wright, a primatologist at Stony Brook University who has spent three decades building a program to examine and protect Madagascar’s lemurs, large-eyed primates that only live in the wild on the island. His team does not expect any source of hiking profits, much of its operating budget, at least until the end of the year, although it needs to stay more than a hundred workers hired in difficult times Produce virtual safaris and travel videos in Madagascar to sell to tour operators and schools looking for clinical content online. “We have to pass this year,” he said.
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A Lemur Vari is located in a branch near the forest of Vohibola, Madagascar (Photo via RIJASOLO / AFP Getty Images)