Sustainable Peatland Management Can Prevent Future Pandemics: Study
Sustainably managing peatlands — peat-swamp forests found around the tropics — can protect humans from future pandemics, according to a new study titled ‘Tropical peatlands and their conservation are important in the context of COVID-19 and potential future (zoonotic) disease pandemics’.
Key Observations
- Peatlands are rich in biodiversity, including many potential vertebrate and invertebrate vectors, or carriers of disease.
- These included numerous vertebrates known to represent a risk of spreading zoonotic disease, such as bats, rodents, pangolins and primates. Zoonotic diseases are those that jump from animals to humans.
- These areas also faced high levels of habitat disruption such as wild or ....
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