COVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forward

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dc.contributor.authorMuche, Meseret
dc.contributor.authorYemata, Getahun
dc.contributor.authorMolla, Eyayu
dc.contributor.authorMuasya, A M
dc.contributor.authorTsegay, Berhanu A
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-08T10:50:41Z
dc.date.available2022-04-08T10:50:41Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-29
dc.date.updated2022-01-30T04:13:21Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, which has an enormous effect on human lives and the global environment. This review aimed to assess the global scientific evidence on the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on natural resources using international databases and search engines. Thus, the unprecedented anthropause due to COVID-19 has positive and negative effects on natural resources. Main body This review showed that the unprecedented pandemic lockdown events brought a negative impact on the physical environment, including pollution associated with a drastic increase in person protective equipment, deforestation, illegal poaching and logging, overfishing, disruption of the conservation program and projects. It is noted that the spread of pandemic diseases could be aggravated by environmental pollution and a rapid increase in the global population. Despite these negative impacts of COVID-19, the anthropause appear to have also several positive effects on natural resources such as short term reduction of indoor and outdoor environmental pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO, and CO2), reduction in noise pollutions from ships, boats, vehicles, and planes which have positive effects on aquatic ecosystems, water quality, birds behaviour, wildlife biodiversity, and ecosystem restoration. Conclusion Therefore, governments and scientific communities across the globe have called for a green recovery to COVID-19 and implement multi-actor interventions and environmentally friendly technologies to improve and safeguard sustainable environmental and biodiversity management and halt the next pandemic.en_US
dc.identifier.apacitationMuche, M., Yemata, G., Molla, E., Muasya, A. M., & Tsegay, B. A. (2022). COVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forward. <i>Bulletin of the National Research Centre</i>, 46(1), 20. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36303en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMuche, Meseret, Getahun Yemata, Eyayu Molla, A M Muasya, and Berhanu A Tsegay "COVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forward." <i>Bulletin of the National Research Centre</i> 46, 1. (2022): 20. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36303en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMuche, M., Yemata, G., Molla, E., Muasya, A.M. & Tsegay, B.A. 2022. COVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forward. <i>Bulletin of the National Research Centre.</i> 46(1):20. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36303en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Muche, Meseret AU - Yemata, Getahun AU - Molla, Eyayu AU - Muasya, A M AU - Tsegay, Berhanu A AB - Background: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, which has an enormous effect on human lives and the global environment. This review aimed to assess the global scientific evidence on the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on natural resources using international databases and search engines. Thus, the unprecedented anthropause due to COVID-19 has positive and negative effects on natural resources. Main body This review showed that the unprecedented pandemic lockdown events brought a negative impact on the physical environment, including pollution associated with a drastic increase in person protective equipment, deforestation, illegal poaching and logging, overfishing, disruption of the conservation program and projects. It is noted that the spread of pandemic diseases could be aggravated by environmental pollution and a rapid increase in the global population. Despite these negative impacts of COVID-19, the anthropause appear to have also several positive effects on natural resources such as short term reduction of indoor and outdoor environmental pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO, and CO2), reduction in noise pollutions from ships, boats, vehicles, and planes which have positive effects on aquatic ecosystems, water quality, birds behaviour, wildlife biodiversity, and ecosystem restoration. Conclusion Therefore, governments and scientific communities across the globe have called for a green recovery to COVID-19 and implement multi-actor interventions and environmentally friendly technologies to improve and safeguard sustainable environmental and biodiversity management and halt the next pandemic. DA - 2022-01-29 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town IS - 1 J1 - Bulletin of the National Research Centre KW - Biodiversity KW - COVID-19 KW - Environmental resources KW - Global gasses KW - Lockdown LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2022 T1 - COVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forward TI - COVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forward UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36303 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s42269-022-00706-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/36303
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMuche M, Yemata G, Molla E, Muasya AM, Tsegay BA. COVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forward. Bulletin of the National Research Centre. 2022;46(1):20. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36303.en_ZA
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dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Biological Sciencesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_US
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceBulletin of the National Research Centreen_US
dc.source.journalissue1en_US
dc.source.journalvolume46en_US
dc.source.pagination20en_US
dc.source.urihttps://bnrc.springeropen.com/
dc.subjectBiodiversityen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental resourcesen_US
dc.subjectGlobal gassesen_US
dc.subjectLockdownen_US
dc.titleCOVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forwarden_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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