News Headline
International Day for Biodiversity: The Sooner We See the Web of Life, the Better
Source
The Wire
Publication Date
2021-05-20
The world has been witnessing a series of virus spillovers from wild species to humans. The spate of infectious diseases in recent decades – Chikungunya, Ebola, yellow fever, swine flu, bird flu, SARS, Nipah, Zika – all can be traced to biodiversity loss and the subsequent close interactions between wild species and human beings.