COVID-19 Pandemic Wreaking Havoc on African Wildlife and Biodiversity
Dr Peter Lindsey from the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria in South Africa is the lead author on this collaborative publication by a total of 23 authors with intimate knowledge of the wildlife and biodiversity situation in Africa. While there have been published reports of wildlife benefitting in some parts of the world due to reduced human activities, these authors contend that, in Africa, the net conservation impacts of COVID-19 will be strongly negative. They describe how the crisis is creating a ‘perfect storm’ of reduced funding, restrictions on the operations of conservation agencies, cutting off the earnings of rural
