GCRF_NF94: Identifying and mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on legal and sustainable wildlife trade in LMICs

为了遏制新冠肺炎，中国对野生动物贸易进行了限制，野生动物贸易是中小岛屿发展中国家数亿人生计和粮食安全的关键来源。野生动物市场已经关闭，新的野生动物贸易禁令正在实施，各国政府正在提议对野生动物贸易法规进行重大改革。这些改革旨在维护全球公共卫生和全球食品体系，但它们扰乱了满足人们粮食安全和经济需求的野生动物供应链。对全球野生动物贸易的打击也有可能将贸易推向地下，对公共卫生、保护和犯罪产生影响。该项目的目的是为监管野生动物贸易制定基于证据的指导方针，以在不破坏合法和可持续的野生动物贸易经济的情况下应对新冠肺炎的风险。该项目将使用贸易数据、访谈和德尔菲法：(1)跟踪疫情期间不断变化的野生动物贸易趋势；(2)评估这些不断变化的趋势对从事野生动物经济的人的影响；(3)为新冠肺炎时代安全、合法和可持续的野生动物贸易制定新的指导方针。该项目将获得来自肯尼亚和喀麦隆的证据-这两个LMIC的野生动物部门将受到新冠肺炎的重大影响。该项目将由一个由野生动物贸易、保护和生计专家组成的国际跨学科团队领导，并与CIFOR合作实施，CIFOR是一个处于低收入国家野生动物贸易研究前沿的研究所。已经建立了一个专家影响网络(IUCN、IIED、TRANSPORT)，以实现影响。

To contain COVID-19, there has been a clampdown on wildlife trade, which is a key source of livelihood and food security for hundreds of millions of people in LMICs. Wildlife markets have been closed, new bans on wildlife trade are being enforced and governments are proposing drastic changes to wildlife trade regulations. These reforms aim to safeguard global public health and global food systems, yet they disrupt wildlife supply chains that meet peoples' food security and economic needs. The clampdown on global wildlife trade also risks pushing trade underground with implications for public health, conservation and crime. The aim of this project is to develop evidence-based guidelines for regulating wildlife trade to address the risks of COVID-19 without undermining legal and sustainable wildlife trade economies. This project will use trade data, interviews and the Delphi method to: (1) track changing wildlife trade trends during the pandemic; (2) assess the impacts of these changing trends on people engaged in wildlife economies; and (3) formulate new guidelines for safe, legal and sustainable wildlife trade in the COVID-19 era. The project will be informed by evidence from Kenya and Cameroon - two LMICs with wildlife sectors that stand to be significantly impacted by COVID-19. This project will be led by an international, interdisciplinary team of wildlife trade, conservation and livelihood experts, and implemented in collaboration with CIFOR, an institute at the forefront of research on wildlife trade in LMICs. An Expert Impact Network (IUCN, IIED, TRAFFIC) has been established to realise impact.