FILE PHOTO: A customs officer gives water to pangolins before a news conference at the customs department in Bangkok September 26, 2011. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom/File Photo
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has generated overwhelming support for the closure of markets selling illegal wildlife across Southeast Asia, an epicenter of the multi-billion-dollar trade, the World Wildlife Fund said in a public opinion poll on Monday.
About 93 per cent of about 5,000 people surveyed by WWF in March across three Southeast 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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