Eivin Røskaft

Abstract COVID-19 severely impacted industries worldwide, with tourism among the hardest hit. Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small-scale tourism businesses near protected areas in northern Tanzania is crucial for evaluating global crises at the community level. We collected data using questionnaires from 335 respondents to assess the impact of COVID-19 on small-scale tourism businesses and evaluate their perceptions of changes in illegal activities in protected areas.

replying to R. Meitern et al. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52548-3 (2024) To illuminate why twinning occurs in humans1, despite its threatening the health both of mothers2 and their children3,4, we analysed the relationship between twinning and fertility in a large, non-aggregated, multi-population, historical dataset of birth records from Northern and Central Europe5.

1 INTRODUCTION Overexploitation of biological resources is a key driver of global biodiversity loss. The consumptive use of wild species for food, medicine, and trade has diminished several groups of vertebrate taxa and pushed many species to the brink of extinction (IPBES, 2022b).