The multibillion-dollar wildlife trade must be brought to an end if we want to avoid more pandemics in the future.
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Steven R Galster is founder of Freeland, an international counter-trafficking organisation leading a campaign to prevent pandemics and extinction. He ... led US government-sponsored counter-wildlife trafficking programmes for 25 years.
The multibillion-dollar wildlife trade must be brought to an end if we want to avoid more pandemics in the future.