They call for the suspension of the trade in wild animals for food purposes
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The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) have published a guide with which they want to reduce the risks to public health associated with the sale of live wild animals for food in traditional food markets.
In the guide, they outline the actions that national governments should urgently consider to make traditional markets safer, not forgetting their importance in providing food and as a means of subsistence for large populations.
In particular, WHO, OIE and UNEP are calling on competent national authorities to suspend trade in wild animals of mammal species captured live for food or breeding purposes and to close sections of food markets that sell wild animals of species of mammals captured alive as an emergency measure.
Although the document focuses on the risk of disease emergence in traditional food markets where live animals are sold for food, it is also relevant for other uses of wild animals. All these uses of wild animals require an approach characterized by the conservation of biodiversity, animal welfare, and national and international regulations on threatened and endangered species.
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