Before the pandemic, only a third of countries were on track to achieve the United Nations target to sustainably manage forests and halt biodiversity loss. 10m hectares of forest are destroyed each year and two billion hectares of land is now degraded, affecting some 3.2bn people. Evidence suggests that animal trafficking, and in particular the movement of 370,000 pangolins used for Chinese medicine, may have been responsible for transferring Covid-19 to humans. Our contribution as an ...