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Contributor Jeandré van der Walt, Farmer's Weekly
Friday, 31 January 2020, 09:40
AGRICULTURAL NEWS - The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) has welcomed the recent decision by Chinese authorities to temporarily ban the trade in wild animals to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
However, the organisation called on that country’s government to make this a permanent rather than temporary ban.
“If the demand for illegal wildlife products persists, and markets go unregulated, populations will continue to be threatened by zoonotic diseases,” the EWT warned.
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