News Headline
World leaders ‘ignoring’ role of destruction of nature in causing pandemics
Source
Guardian (International Edition)
Publication Date
2021-06-04
The root cause of pandemics – the destruction of nature – is being ignored, scientists have warned. The focus of world leaders on responding to future outbreaks overlooks the far cheaper and more effective strategy of stopping the spillover of disease from animals to humans in the first place, they have said.