Wildlife groups commend China’s live market closures

30 January 2020
The Phnom Penh Post
Environmental and biodiversity protection
2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) / illegal wildlife trade / Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) / World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

The World Wide Fund (WWF) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have expressed support for the Chinese government which has imposed a ban on wildlife trade as it is suspected of being behind the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus infection. The WCS also called on various governments to close live animal markets mixed with wild animals. A statement issued by the WWF on Tuesday said the Chinese National Forest & Grassland Administration (NFGA) had recently deployed a series of epidemic prevention and control measures. …

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