Corona's influence The world's nature and wildlife are in crisis

 

    Corona's influence The world's nature and wildlife are in crisis

       

 

 

This coronavirus is affecting not only Asia and Europe, but all over the world. 

In particular, the airline and travel industries have been greatly affected, and it is unprecedented for travel to stop around the world. 

And the impact on the trip is beginning to spread to nature and wildlife. 

In the past, areas that had earned income in a way that directly destroyed the environment, such as hunting and field farming, but began to earn money while preserving the local environment by introducing ecotourism, are at risk due to the influence of this corona. 

In other words, because people can no longer travel due to the pandemic of the Coronavirus, the income of people all over the world involved in tourism is lost, along with the increase in the number of people who act directly to the destruction of nature, such as conventional poaching and burning fields to live every day, poaching patrols and nature reserves of the reserve that was operated by tourism revenue, It is a situation that the activity of the nature conservation group is not possible. Conservation efforts to protect ecosystems, from the vast plains of Masai Mara, Kenya, to the delicate corals of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, are in danger of being caused by the collapse of ecotourism around the world by the Covid-19 pandemic, mainly funding projects of endangered species and rare habitats.  

Local organizations and ecotourism companies may be forced to close because of a sudden shutdown of millions of dollars in tourism revenue due to border closures and travel restrictions around the world.  

Mike Barrett, Executive Director of Science and Conservation at WWF UK, said: "It is right that the global focus is now on protecting lives in this devastating pandemic. But it's already had an economic impact, especially in areas where communities are heavily dependent on ecotourism to make a living."  

Around the world, people who have lost their tourist jobs are at risk of a surge in poaching, illegal fishing and deforestation in order to keep their incomes.  

According to the Wildlife Conservation Association, three giant endangered toki were killed for food in early April after the collapse of the local tourism industry in Cambodia. In Central Africa, tourism revenues, which are important to the region, are falling due to measures to protect mountain gorillas from viruses. A group of 12 rangers guarding Virnga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, home to endangered mountain gorillas, have been killed by local armed groups guarding poaching and other activities. Alever there have been poachers until now, nature conservation and poaching patrols, which were financed by tourism revenues in this pandemic, are no longer possible, increasing the number and speed at which wild animals and ecosystems are destroyed. 

Ecotourism, which played a role in environmental protection, has stopped in various parts of the world, and the ecosystems of nature and wildlife are at risk. 

The confusion, which can be said to be the secondary damage of the coronavirus, is now threatening nature. 

i think that with this pandemic settling in place, there is a possibility that this situation will gradually improve as people around the world continue to travel more sustainablely. At the same time, however, it may be necessary to consider a mechanism that goes not only for tourism and nature conservation, so that the lives of local people do not lead to environmental destruction, assuming that such a situation will be prolonged or happened again.