Geneva, Switzerland — The COVID-19 pandemic has not only had devastating effects on humans, it has also heavily impacted efforts to safeguard natural ecosystems and habitats around the globe, conservationists warned Thursday.
The pandemic and its economic fall-out have put rangers out of work, forced cuts to anti-poaching patrols, and sparked a range of environmental roll-backs, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said.
A special edition of the IUCN’s PARKS journal, containing a collection of new research papers on the pandemic’s various impacts on nature conservation, indicated the crisis was being felt in protected areas worldwide.
“While the global…
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