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dc.contributor.authorBates, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorPrimack, Richard
dc.contributor.authorPAN-Environment Working Group
dc.contributor.authorDuarte, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorRutz, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-19T23:42:40Z
dc.date.available2022-05-19T23:42:40Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-20
dc.identifier.citationBates , A , Primack , R , PAN-Environment Working Group , Duarte , C & Rutz , C 2021 , ' Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment ' , Biological Conservation , vol. In Press . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109175en
dc.identifier.issn0006-3207
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 274256143
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 8dc21e91-d5cb-41a0-aa2b-46c4f11ef2f4
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5187-7417/work/94669783
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85107531420
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000719385700005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/25418
dc.descriptionFunding: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; National Geographic Society (NGS-82515R-20).en
dc.description.abstractThe global lockdown to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic health risks has altered human interactions with nature. Here, we report immediate impacts of changes in human activities on wildlife and environmental threats during the early lockdown months of 2020, based on 877 qualitative reports and 332 quantitative assessments from 89 different studies. Hundreds of reports of unusual species observations from around the world suggest that animals quickly responded to the reductions in human presence. However, negative effects of lockdown on conservation also emerged, as confinement resulted in some park officials being unable to perform conservation, restoration and enforcement tasks, resulting in local increases in illegal activities such as hunting. Overall, there is a complex mixture of positive and negative effects of the pandemic lockdown on nature, all of which have the potential to lead to cascading responses which in turn impact wildlife and nature conservation. While the net effect of the lockdown will need to be assessed over years as data becomes available and persistent effects emerge, immediate responses were detected across the world. Thus initial qualitative and quantitative data arising from this serendipitous global quasi-experimental perturbation highlights the dual role that humans play in threatening and protecting species and ecosystems. Pathways to favorably tilt this delicate balance include reducing impacts and increasing conservation effectiveness.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBiological Conservationen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109175.en
dc.subjectPandemicen
dc.subjectBiodiversityen
dc.subjectRestorationen
dc.subjectGlobal monitoringen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectGF Human ecology. Anthropogeographyen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectRA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicineen
dc.subject3rd-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.subject.lccGFen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccRA0421en
dc.titleGlobal COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environmenten
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorGordon and Betty Moore Foundationen
dc.contributor.sponsorNational Geographic Societyen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109175
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2022-05-20
dc.identifier.grantnumberen
dc.identifier.grantnumberNGS-82515R-20en


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