China

WildAid welcomes China’s measures at government’s level to protect wildlife

The Chinese government is offering to buy out animals on wildlife farms, and to help farmers change their agricultural practices, in an effort to reduce the consumption of wild animals. This step could have big implications for the management of wildlife in China in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say.

Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industry

Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus

Wildlife Markets Are Ticking Time Bombs For Epidemics Like Coronavirus

Amid a lethal outbreak, China faces growing calls to ban wild animal markets for good.

How to stop the Wuhan coronavirus from happening again

How did the deadly coronavirus jump from animals to humans? And what steps can we take to guard against it in the future?