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International Alliance against Health Risks in WildlifeTrade
Background
The International Alliance against Health Risks in WildlifeTrade is an inclusive and interdisciplinary platform aiming to reduce health risks from wildlife trade and consumption.
In September 2021 the International Alliance against Health Risks and Wildlife Trade was launched as an inclusive and interdisciplinary platform at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille. Within the first year, IUBS and more than 100 national and international political, academic and civil society organizations, have joined as members.
The Alliance is driven by evidence-based insight, and addresses the entire wildlife trade spectrum: from hunting and handling, through trading to consuming wildlife and its products. To reduce the risks of future outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics.
Goals
Strategies to identify and address health risks are complex: They must be context-specific and culture-sensitive and require interdisciplinary knowledge exchange, well-coordinated inclusive planning, co-creation and joint actions of many different actors.
1. Substantially reducing the risks of zoonotic spillover and stepping up responses (including behavioral changes) to human and animal health risks caused by direct and indirect contact with wildlife and their products along the wildlife trade chain.
2. Enhancing international and national awareness, knowledge and policies with regard to goal 1, thus narrowing the gap between science and implementation.
Activities
- Expert talks
- Projects
