Zoonotic viruses: Protect bats to protect people: Bats are potential carriers of zoonotic viruses and the destruction of their environment spells danger for humans.
and the Mammal Research Institute, describes how the removal of the country’s trees, harvested for timber products and firewood and cleared for agriculture and housing, is bringing wild animals such as bats into closer contact with humans than ever before.
Bats, along with domesticated species, primates and rodents, are a large and diverse order that host a variety of viruses with zoonotic potential, with several bat species in South Africa earmarked for ongoing monitoring for potentially zoonotic viruses. Pretorius investigated some of the human-caused pressures these species face around their caves. She used land-cover datasets from the former department of environmental affairs to determine the extent of land-cover change within 5km around 47 bat-inhabited caves between 2014 and 2018.
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