Where the wild viruses are: the extinction crisis message is shifting in the wake of Covid-19
(WorldNews India)

The same nature documentaries that once took great pains to remove humans from the frame are now desperate to return us to the story. ` data-adaptive-image-768-img=` ` data-adaptive-image-1024-img=` ` data-adaptive-image-max-img=` `> Beings of demons and darkness, bats have long been vilified in Western culture. That aversion may have seemed justified with the arrival of Covid-19, a zoonotic disease probably derived from the species. Yet, as a new UN biodiversity report pressed home last week, it is humanity`s own transgressions upon nature, and not bats, that have come back to bite. The proximity that allowed the novel coronavirus to make the jump from a bat to a human was probably due...