1. Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID‐19.
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Rocha, R., Aziz, S. A., Brook, C. E., Carvalho, W. D., Cooper‐Bohannon, R., Frick, W. F., Huang, J. C.‐C., Kingston, T., López‐Baucells, A., Maas, B., Mathews, F., Medellin, R. A., Olival, K. J., Peel, A. J., Plowright, R. K., Razgour, O., Rebelo, H., Rodrigues, L., Rossiter, S. J., and Russo, D.
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BAT conservation ,COVID-19 ,ZOONOSES ,PERSECUTION ,DURIAN ,BAT diseases - Abstract
Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19 COVID-19 has spread around the globe, with massive impacts on global human health, national economies and conservation activities. Conservation psychology will play a key role in changing behaviours associated with spill-over risks and in building support for bat conservation following COVID-19 (MacFarlane & Rocha, 2020). In spite of widespread recognition that bat-associated zoonotic spill-over events are largely rooted in human activities (Brierley I et al i ., 2016), bats are often presented as the culprits of viral spill-over, with real-world repercussions for conservation efforts (López-Baucells, Rocha & Fernández-Llamazares, 2018). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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