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Because 75% of all emerging infectious diseases come from wildlife, the continued erosion of wild spaces has brought humans uncomfortably close to animals and plants that harbour diseases that can jump to humans.

- - - > Rare strain of parasite that killed 4 otters in California could pose danger to humans, researchers say < - - -
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/rare-strain-parasite-killed-4-otters-california-pose-danger-humans-res-rcna76461

Extinction: The Facts (PBS documentary - with a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases)
https://www.pbs.org/show/extinction-facts/?fbclid=IwAR3K8j2NIxfRVQr_5FWj-5YlKqFva2XUd0O9Mv2dRk8TbbQUPJpgevmpigQ

How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/magazine/animal-disease-covid.html

'We should start thinking about the next one': Coronavirus is just the first of many pandemics to come, environmentalists warn
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-uk-pandemics-environmentalists-warning-a9413996.html?fbclid=IwAR2f2AX912BkEclwOr9Ic4ZQDGiItTxL6eLs81TbfvrZxB1UlQ9fyN67ZCE

Scientists are seeing an 'acceleration of pandemics': They are looking at climate change
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/10/climate-change-covid-19-does-global-warming-fuel-pandemics/5749582002/

Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Think Again.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-habitat-loss/

Destroying Nature Unleashes Infectious Diseases
https://nyti.ms/NrGwhc

'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe

Want to Stop the Next Pandemic? Start Protecting Wildlife Habitats
https://time.com/5817363/wildlife-habitats-disease-pandemics/?fbclid=IwAR3pUryAQiaNUMbb2kZVAMSdBeek2GEBZ4pAkfIARxuiueW1M9VBaR4bj_A

Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief

Jewish Veg website
https://www.jewishveg.org/pandemic/source-of-pandemics/