BANGKOK: The Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has generated overwhelming support for the closure of markets selling illegal wildlife across South-East Asia, an epicenter of the multi-billion-dollar trade, the World Wildlife Fund said in a public opinion poll on Tuesday (April 7).
About 93% of about 5,000 people surveyed by WWF in March across three South-East Asian nations as well as Hong Kong and Japan said unregulated markets selling wildlife should be shuttered to ward off future pandemics.
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