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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. Anticipated publication in early 2021.
The overall finding is that the legal responses to managing zoonotic disease both at the international and national level, are widespread but have not yet evolved sufficiently to address the risks posed by wildlife trade. But what this research also demonstrates is that national laws already have more tools directed at zoonoses (directly and indirectly) than may be imagined, especially as they sometimes include wildlife or are specifically directed at wildlife trade. |