This Friday, June 5th is the #DíaMundialDelAmbiente And this year’s theme is biodiversity. In Chile, we have destroyed and degraded our ecosystems, we have encouraged the loss of habitats, the extraction of resources and the arrival of invasive species, without worrying about the adverse effects that this could cause not only to nature but also to us as a society.
Protecting biodiversity is crucial to avoid health emergencies such as the one that is happening with the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and our director Dr. Aníbal Pauchard together with researchers from other universities have published a document in the Trends in Ecology and Evolution Journal, where they propose to broaden the view and urgently promote collaboration between biomedicine and ecology, in an alliance that will be “vital to limit future outbreaks”.
We invite you to read the article published by the newspaper El Mostrador What do invasive species and Covid-19 have in common?