A vaccine against outbreaks: Ban wildlife tradeA slow loris, seen in a cage at a police press briefing in Bangkok, is among protected wildlife animals seized from a wildlife trafficker in July 2017. There is good reason to believe that we know the source -- global wildlife trade -- and that there is a solution. With Covid-19, they have closed their wet markets and banned wildlife trade. Thailand has a newly improved wildlife law and is helping to draft an Asean plan to reduce wildlife trafficking across Southeast Asia. But like Thai law, the Asean plan still allows for legal wildlife trade, and lacks high-level attention, funding and multi-agency implementation.

Source: Bangkok Post March 20, 2020 23:15 UTC