The coronavirus pandemic has generated overwhelming support for the closure of markets selling illegal wildlife across South-East Asia, an epicentre of the multi-billion-dollar trade, the World Wildlife Fund said in a public opinion poll.
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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