{"id":802,"date":"2020-02-28T05:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T10:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=802"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:25:54","slug":"the-coronavirus-could-finally-kill-the-wild-animal-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/02\/28\/the-coronavirus-could-finally-kill-the-wild-animal-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coronavirus Could Finally Kill the Wild Animal Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-28-at-5.21.17-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-803\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-28-at-5.21.17-AM-1024x914.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-28-at-5.21.17-AM-1024x914.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-28-at-5.21.17-AM-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-28-at-5.21.17-AM-768x685.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-28-at-5.21.17-AM.png 1726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cI think there will be a period of one or two years where the wildlife trade gets suppressed because of [coronavirus], because people are concerned about it, they don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s legal or not\u2014and the risk of disease,\u201d said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance. \u201cBut it will come back, because some of these meals are just so deep in the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, conservationists have only a small window of time while these fears are still fresh in people\u2019s minds to emphasize the link between the risk of a pandemic and buying and consuming rare wildlife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/02\/25\/virus-bats-pangolins-wild-animals-coronavirus-zoonotic-diseases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Coronavirus Could Finally Kill the Wild Animal Trade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think there will be a period of one or two years where the wildlife trade gets suppressed because of [coronavirus], because people are concerned about it, they don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s legal or not\u2014and the risk of disease,\u201d said <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/02\/28\/the-coronavirus-could-finally-kill-the-wild-animal-trade\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}