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Recent reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in the conservation community have centred on how proximity to wild animals and their consumption in local food circuits may give rise to the spread of infectious diseases, ultimately resulting in human transmission. This has unleashed an onslaught of debate in scientific and related policy literature on nature conservation, human-nature relations, animal rights, and efforts to alleviate global poverty among forest-dependent peoples. This perspective article seeks to extract the key points from the ensuing debate and consider possible solutions.
