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Public health and safety concerns around the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly changed human behaviour. Such shifts in behaviours, including travel patterns, consumerism, and energy use, are variously impacting biodiversity during the human-dominated geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. Indeed, the dramatic reduction in human mobility and activity has been termed the 'Anthropause'. COVID-19 has highlighted the current environmental and biodiversity crisis and has provided an opportunity to redefine our relationship with nature. Here we share 10 considerations for conservation policy makers to support and rethink the development of impactful and effective policies in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are opportunities to leverage societal changes as a result of COVID-19, focus on the need for collaboration and engagement, and address lessons learned through the development of policies (including those related to public health) during the pandemic. The pandemic has had devastating impacts on humanity that should not be understated, but it is also a warning that we need to redefine our relationship with nature and restore biodiversity. The considerations presented here will support the development of robust, evidence-based, and transformative policies for biodiversity conservation in a post-COVID-19 world. Key words: COVID-19, pandemic, conservation policy, biodiversity, transitions, Anthropause. Les preoccupations de sante et de securite publiques liees au nouveau coronavirus SRAS-CoV-2 et a la pandemie de COVID-19 ont considerablement modifie le comportement humain. De tels changements de comportement, notamment les modes de deplacement, la consommation et l'utilisation de l'energie, ont des repercussions diverses sur la biodiversite au cours de l'epoque geologique dominee par l'humain, connue sous le nom d'anthropocene. En effet, la reduction spectaculaire de la mobilite et de l'activite humaines a ete appelee << anthropause >>. La COVID-19 a mis en lumiere la crise actuelle de l'environnement et de la biodiversite et a fourni l'occasion de redefinir notre relation avec la nature. Les auteurs partagent ici 10 considerations a l'intention des decideurs en matiere de conservation, afin de soutenir et de repenser l'elaboration de politiques percutantes et efficaces a la lumiere de la pandemie de COVID-19. II est possible de tirer parti des changements societaux resultant de la pandemie de COVID-19, de mettre l'accent sur la necessite de la collaboration et de l'engagement, et de tenir compte des lecons tirees de 1'elaboration des politiques (y compris celles liees a la sante publique) pendant la pandemie. La pandemie a eu des effets devastateurs sur l'humanite qu'il ne faut pas sous-estimer, mais elle constitue aussi un avertissement que nous devons redefinir notre relation avec la nature et restaurer la biodiversite. Les considerations presentees ici soutiendront le developpement de politiques solides, fondees sur des preuves et transformatrices pour la conservation de la biodiversite dans un monde post-COVID-19. [Traduit par la Redaction] Mots-cles: COVID-19, pandemie, politique de conservation, biodiversite, transitions, anthropause., Introduction The SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (herein called COVID-19 recognizing that this is the resultant disease) pandemic has had an incredibly heavy human toll (from loss of life (Woolf et al. [...]

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Presents several correspondence on medical issues in Great Britain. Emigration of doctors; Complications of Laparoscopy; Teratogenic effects of hormones in pregnant women.

Focuses on the clinical responsibility of doctors in Great Britain. Position of the patient to clinical responsibility; Effects of growing professional and industrial conflict to the role of doctors; Suggestions for the development of interrelationships between physicians.