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Seattle, Washington / SAN Diego, California / Austin, Texas — As the world confronts escalating climate impacts, biodiversity loss, and ocean degradation, islands stand as critical test cases--not just as sites of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of resilience, restoration, and innovation. Too often, they are framed as victims of global circumstances, awaiting salvation from external forces.
The emergence of the current global COVID-19 pandemic echoes past viral outbreaks that demonstrate a recurring nexus between human health and wildlife conservation issues. The disease, like similar viruses before it, appears to have emerged after passing from wildlife to people — in this case likely originating from a bat. This transmission is thought to have taken place in a so-called “wet market” where wildlife and domesticated animals are kept in tightly confined unsanitary conditions.
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Rediscovery of the Santa Marta Toro Santamartamys rufodorsalis (Rodentia: Echimyidae), after 113 years, with notes on all three known records and the species’ conservation needs in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Autores: Elizabeth Noble, Simon McKeown, Wes Sechrest Localización: Conservación Colombiana, ISSN-e 1900-1592, Nº. 15, 2011, págs.
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