Coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. Research suggests one of the closest known ancestors of the virus that causes Covid-19 emerged in bats between 40 and 70 years ago.
Countries are facing a pressing, complex and interlinked set of environmental crises. While significant government resources and capacities need to focus on managing the social and economic consequences brought on by efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the global environmental challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss remain urgent. Recent major international reports (e.g.
Due to recent Covid-19 orders released by the national Control Centre, the Port Moresby Nature Park has put in extra precautionary measures.
The non-governmental organization Human Rights At Sea earlier this month published a report with numerous recommendations to better protect fisheries observers who monitor fish catches by tuna vessels in the Pacific.
In a paper released in the latest issue of PARKS, The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation, 35 conservationists compiled a comprehensive account of how protected and conserved areas around the world are being impacted by COVID-19. Protected and conserved areas such as nationa
From a Wuhan, China, “wet market” where freshly butchered meat and live wild animals are sold for food and medicine, the virus likely was transmitted in late 2019 via wildlife to humans.
The fishing effort in the tuna-rich waters of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) does not appear to have been significantly impeded by the COVID-19 crisis, according to a report prepared by Brisbane, Australia-based resources consultancy MRAG Asia Pacific.
Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to new research.
Small island developing nations continue to find ways to navigate toward long-term sustainability.
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on across the globe, the linkages between ecosystem degradation and the loss of biodiversity, and the emergence of infectious diseases, was discussed during the final session in the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme’s (SPREP) webinar series “