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How we respond to COVID-19 will determine our relevancy for the future

An opinion piece arguing the need for cross-scale community-led conservation to provide solutions for systems change. Highting the limits of previous conservation models and the historical controversies and attitudes towards community-based conservation. The article argues that holistic community-based conservation has the potential to both lessen the current impacts of COVID-19 while also creating community resiliency to social, economic, and public health shocks.

Key points

- Community-based conservation at its heart is characterized by holistic integrated interventions which are themes that are required across various conservation interventions.
- Community-based conservation offers real potential to mitigate the impacts of pandemics and prevent future pandemics.
- The COVID-19 crisis highlighted both opportunities and failures in our field to deliver impactful solutions to repair systemic unsustainable relationships between society and nature.

Suggested citation

Miller, A. E. (2020). How we respond to COVID-19 will determine our relevancy for the future. Tropical Conservation Science, 13, 1940082920949182.

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An opinion article published in Tropical Conservation Science on the importance of adopting a systems approach in community-led or based conservation.
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