The relative importance of COVID-19 pandemic impacts on biodiversity conservation globally

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Veröffentlicht in:	Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. - 1999. - 36(2022), 1 vom: 05. Feb., Seite e13781
1. Verfasser:	Gibbons, David W (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Sandbrook, Chris, Sutherland, William J, Akter, Rezvin, Bradbury, Richard, Broad, Steven, Clements, Andy, Crick, Humphrey Q P, Elliott, Joanna, Gyeltshen, Ngawang, Heath, Melanie, Hughes, Jonathan, Jenkins, Richard K B, Jones, Alastair H, Lopez de la Lama, Rocio, Macfarlane, Nicholas B W, Maunder, Mike, Prasad, Ravikash, Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo, Steiner, Noa, Tremlett, James, Trevelyan, Rosie, Vijaykumar, Savita, Wedage, Irushinie, Ockendon, Nancy
Format:	Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:	Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Schlagworte:	Journal Article ambiente assessment compendio compendium coronavirus environment evaluación fauna naturaleza mehr... nature wildlife

Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:	© 2021 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on almost all aspects of human society and endeavor; the natural world and its conservation have not been spared. Through a process of expert consultation, we identified and categorized, into 19 themes and 70 subthemes, the ways in which biodiversity and its conservation have been or could be affected by the pandemic globally. Nearly 60% of the effects have been broadly negative. Subsequently, we created a compendium of all themes and subthemes, each with explanatory text, and in August 2020 a diverse group of experienced conservationists with expertise from across sectors and geographies assessed each subtheme for its likely impact on biodiversity conservation globally. The 9 subthemes ranked highest all have a negative impact. These were, in rank order, governments sidelining the environment during their economic recovery, reduced wildlife-based tourism income, increased habitat destruction, reduced government funding, increased plastic and other solid waste pollution, weakening of nature-friendly regulations and their enforcement, increased illegal harvest of wild animals, reduced philanthropy, and threats to survival of conservation organizations. In combination, these impacts present a worrying future of increased threats to biodiversity conservation but reduced capacity to counter them. The highest ranking positive impact, at 10, was the beneficial impact of wildlife-trade restrictions. More optimistically, among impacts ranked 11-20, 6 were positive and 4 were negative. We hope our assessment will draw attention to the impacts of the pandemic and, thus, improve the conservation community's ability to respond to such threats in the future
Beschreibung:	Date Completed 02.03.2022 Date Revised 16.07.2022 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:	1523-1739
DOI:	10.1111/cobi.13781