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A sawmill in Peru’s Madre de Dios region of the Amazon rainforest. Photograph: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images
September 3, 2020
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Scientists are to warn world leaders that increasing numbers of deadly new pandemics will afflict the planet if levels of deforestation and biodiversity loss continue at their current catastrophic rates. A UN summit on biodiversity, scheduled to be held in New York next month, will be told by conservationists and biologists there is now clear evidence of a strong link between environmental destruction and the increased emergence of deadly new diseases such as Covid-19.

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