Over 200 of the world’s conservation and animal groups have written to the World Health Organization (WHO) calling on it to ask countries to take a highly precautionary approach to the multi-billion dollar wildlife trade and put a permanent ban on all live wildlife markets and the use of wildlife in traditional medicine.
The Covid-19 pandemic originated at wildlife markets in China and is thought to have been transmitted to humans as a result of the close proximity between wildlife and people.
Read the letter here: https://lioncoalition.org/2020/04/04/open-letter-to-world-health-organisation/