{"id":16896,"date":"2020-04-06T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/06\/ban-live-animal-markets-pandemics-un-biodiversity-chief-age-of-extinction"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T04:00:46","slug":"ban-wildlife-markets-to-avert-pandemics-says-un-biodiversity-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16896","title":{"rendered":"Ban wildlife markets to avert pandemics, says UN biodiversity chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning comes as destruction of nature increasingly seen as key driver of zoonotic diseases <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/mar\/27\/coronavirus-latest-at-a-glance\">Coronavirus latest: at a glance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United Nations\u2019 biodiversity chief has called for a global ban on wildlife markets \u2013 such as the one in Wuhan, China, believed to be the starting point of the coronavirus outbreak \u2013 to prevent future pandemics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/secretariat\/executive-secretary\/\">Elizabeth Maruma Mrema<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>the acting executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said countries should move to prevent future pandemics by banning \u201cwet markets\u201d that sell live and dead animals for human consumption, but cautioned against unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/06\/ban-live-animal-markets-pandemics-un-biodiversity-chief-age-of-extinction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning comes as destruction of nature increasingly seen as key driver of zoonotic diseases See all our coronavirus coverageCoronavirus latest: at a glanceThe United Nations\u2019 biodiversity chief has called for a global ban on wildlife markets \u2013 such as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,918,50,1069,65,311,914,512,916,299,84,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-environment","category-food","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-united-nations","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16897,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions\/16897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}