{"id":3073,"date":"2020-05-27T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/united-nations-identifies-6-connections-between-nature-and-covid\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:56:19","slug":"united-nations-identifies-6-connections-between-nature-and-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/united-nations-identifies-6-connections-between-nature-and-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations identifies 6 connections between nature and COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Scientists and specialists working at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have been gathering the latest scientific data on the coronavirus: what we know about this new virus and what we don’t know.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

While the precise origin of the outbreak and its route of transmission have not yet been confirmed, here are six important points worth knowing:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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  1. The interaction of humans or livestock with wildlife exposes them to the risk of spreading potential pathogens. For many zoonoses, livestock serve as an epidemiological bridge between wildlife and human infections.<\/li>\r\n
  2. The drivers of zoonotic disease emergence are changes in the environment, usually as a result of human activities that cause alterations in land use, climate, animal or human hosts and pathogens, which always evolve to exploit new hosts.<\/li>\r\n
  3. For example, viruses associated with bats arose due to the loss of their habitats through deforestation and agricultural expansion. Bats play an important role in ecosystems as nocturnal pollinators and insect predators.<\/li>\r\n
  4. Ecosystem integrity underpins human health and development. Human-induced environmental changes modify wildlife population structure and reduce biodiversity, resulting in new environmental conditions that favor particular hosts, vectors, and\/or pathogens.<\/li>\r\n
  5. Ecosystem integrity can help regulate disease by promoting species diversity to make it more difficult for a pathogen to spread, amplify or dominate.<\/li>\r\n
  6. It is impossible to predict where the next outbreak will come from or when it will occur. Growing evidence suggests that outbreaks or epidemic diseases may become more frequent as the climate continues to change.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    see note at: https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/es\/noticias-y-reportajes\/reportajes\/seis-datos-sobre-la-conexion-entre-la-naturaleza-y-el-coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Scientists and specialists working at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have been gathering the latest scientific data on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}