By Mariana Vidal Merino Virus outbreaks, transmitted to humans from an animal host are some of the most lethal diseases known (Ahmad 2020). This is believed to be the case of the current Covid-19 pandemic, whose origins have been traced to a wildmarket in Wuhan. Responding to the raise of Covid-19, China enforced a banContinue reading “From wildmarkets to landscape degradation: the link between biodiversity and the emergence of new diseases”
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“The rain is not coming”
“The rain is not coming” says Pablo while he stares at the dry grass and clenches his fists. Since he was a small child, his grandfather took him to the Pomacocha Mountain and showed him how to recognize the signs of mother nature …
