Wildlife Trade, Pandemics and the Law: Fighting this year's virus with last year's law
This paper is the follow-up to a brief survey of legislation conducted by Legal Atlas in June of 2020 on existing legal approaches to controlling zoonotic disease risk in the context of wildlife trade. The original research was a rapid review conducted to provide some background in response to the numerous articles in international media calling for legal reforms during the first months of the 2020 COVID pandemic.
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Wildlife Trade, Pandemics and the Law: Fighting this year's virus with last year's law
Author(s):
James Wingard
,
Sofija Belajcic
,
Manohar Samal
,
Kathy Rock
,
Mayra Lima Custodio
,
Maria Heise
,
Sicily Fiennes
,
Catherine Machalaba
,
A. Alonso Aguirre
Publication Date: 2021
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This paper is the follow-up to a brief survey of legislation conducted by Legal Atlas in June of 2020 on existing legal approaches to controlling zoonotic disease risk in the context of wildlife trade. The original research was a rapid review conducted to provide some background in response to the numerous articles in international media calling for legal reforms during the first months of the 2020 COVID pandemic.