UNESCO has introduced a series of online discussions on biodiversity and our quotes with nature. These exchanges, which bring together civil society, clinical experts and policy makers, addressed a different attitude about the fitness crisis, its origins and its consequences. he gently expressed the biodiversity crisis that led to the pandemic and the additional risk it posed to the wonderful apes. Experts invited to speak highgentle were 3 important points to understand the roots of the crisis and how to succeed over it.
The pandemic made it clear that our collective appointments with nature were unhealthy; poaching and deforestation bring combined species that do not occur naturally and do not transmit humans to zoonotic pathogens, which make up 70% of emerging diseases. The United Nations Environment Programme and the International Livestock Research Institute point to the mechanisms between biodiversity loss and zoonotic diseases and how they will continue to emerge if we continue as they are, however, an accidental positive outcome of the Covid-19 crisis is that humanity is now aware of the importance of maintaining healthy biodiversity. The One Health approach, which combines human, animal and environmental health, is gaining momentum in a paradigm shift. Maintaining and capitalizing on this new dynamic, this collective understanding, is a necessity – they have to look and paint with the maximum communities directly affected. Communities can be a driving force for biodiversi conservation by presenting how conservation ensures the sustainability of activities.
COVID-19, for scientists around the world, has become a race opposite time. As this article is published, vaccines or remedies still elude researchers even as the number of injured increases. Similarly, primatologists have embarked on such a race to discover how this new virus can be a wonder to apes and to devise protective measures and mitigate threats. To save time, just like humans locked themselves in, the government banned visitors from natural parks and rangers and scientists were, for the most part, sent home. Therefore, it is important to increase the wisdom about the fitness of the wonderful apes, but also their environmental fitness to save the species from extinction. UNESCO, together with the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) and the Sebitoli Chimpanzee Project in Uganda, will present an assignment to prospect and monitor wonderful apes and their habitats in 19 African biosphere reserves with drones, reducing human disturbance. in protected areas and prevents any threat of transmission of zoonotic diseases. The task will focus in particular on the adaptation of biodiversity, following the One Health approach.
An unforeseen positive effect of COVID-19 that was widely discussed was the minimization of contamination, a literal breath of freshness in an otherwise tense moment. It is also the appearance of wild animals in urban agglomerations, which has led to the realization that these spaces, governed by man, are still shared with nature. Less visual but equally vital has been the relief of debris discovered in nature, something in the transmission of zoonotic diseases to wild animals or, at least during arrest, the prevention of wonderful apes killed in traffic accidents. However, with the greatest threat of famine due to a lack of meat in some parts of the world and the resulting increase in prices, poaching and illegal hunting have not stopped. COVID-19 is just one threat in a long list that can lead to the extinction of our closest cousins in the animal kingdom. With the existing rate of decline, it is even conceivable that this extinction is observed during our lifetime. With its 39 designated sites (World Heritage sites and / or biosphere reserves) in 23 countries in Africa and Asia that host or are components of the wonderful ape diversity, UNESCO currently covers all wonderful ape subspecies unless one, the Cross River Gorilla. UNESCO is working with Cameroon and Nigeria to designate the Cross-River domain as a transboundary biosphere reserve. For its component, Nigeria has submitted a biosphere reserve nomination dossier for this domain. UNESCO works with its Member States at these sites to build disgustingly rich societies in harmony with their environment. This includes running in component with local communities to help them take ownership of conservation efforts, coverage, and sustainable progression. Proximity to wonderful ape habitats, for example, increases the threat of zoonotic disease transmission. To raise awareness on this issue in the context of COVID-19, UNESCO, with the help of the Sebitoli Chimpanzee Project in Uganda, has designed a series of posters for communities, but also for diverse parks and / or retail employees. defense recommendations to avoid transmission between humans but also between humans and animals.