COP 15 High-Level Roundtable

December 16th 2022

Pandemic prevention: Protecting nature and safeguarding human health The increasing emergence of new zoonotic diseases, combined with rapid growth in international travel, is pushing the world into an era of pandemics with immeasurable social and economic harm. Human impact on ecosystems, through deforestation and unsustainable land use, harmful animal husbandry practices and wildlife markets and …

High-Level Event: Presenting the Quadripartite's One Health Joint Plan of Action

October 18th 2022

Natural History Museum Berlin We are thrilled to announce that the Alliance will be co-hosting the launch of the Quadripartite’s awaited Joint Plan of Action on Tuesday, 18th October, starting at 18:00 CEST in the Dinosaur Room of the Natural History Museum in Berlin. The event is co-organized by the four Quadripartite organizations (FAO, UNEP, …

"Voices from the Ground": WCS Vietnam on addressing health risks associated with wildlife trade in Vietnam

May 12th 2022

The Alliance’s new online series “Voices from the Ground” format is exclusively for Alliance members and represents the diversity of local realities. This format will create a safe space that is trustworthy to share experiences, solutions and challenges and shall foster the exchange within the Alliance community. During these session incongruences between science and implementation, theory and practice, including Indigenous Peoples knowledge, can …

Expert Talk with Catherine Machalaba

March 29th 2022

Identifying and reducing human health risks from wildlife trade needs an internationally coordinated and cooperative approach. To this end, the International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade serves as an inclusive and interdisciplinary platform to discuss challenges and formulate solutions vis-á-vis human-wildlife interfaces and associated health risks and the emergence and spread of zoonotic pathogens from …

Alliance Plenary Meeting

March 22nd 2022

Dear members of the International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife, It’s been a while since our Inception Workshop in June 2021 where we presented the Alliance and discussed issues still to elaborate and things to do with many of you. We are thrilled your number has been growing, and that you, along with some 94 organizations from …

Matchmaking Session

March 8th 2022

International Animal Rescue Indonesia – tools and methods for conducting zoonotic disease risk assessments of wildlife markets in Indonesia. If you are working on this yourself, or within your organization, or are struggling with similar questions and challenges, please join this session and share your own experiences, offer advice and get to know each other …

Expert Talk with Richard Kock and Hernán Cáceres-Escobar

January 18th 2022

Identifying and reducing human health risks from wildlife trade needs an internationally coordinated and cooperative approach. To this end, the International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade serves as an inclusive and interdisciplinary platform to discuss challenges and formulate solutions vis-á-vis human-wildlife interfaces and associated health risks and the emergence and spread of zoonotic pathogens from …

Expert Talk with Craig Stephen

December 6th 2021

Identifying and reducing human health risks from wildlife trade needs an internationally coordinated and cooperative approach. To this end, the International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade serves as an inclusive and interdisciplinary platform to discuss challenges and formulate solutions vis-á-vis human-wildlife interfaces and associated health risks and the emergence and spread of zoonotic pathogens from …

Preventing the Next Pandemic: One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife trade

September 28th 2021

Wildlife around the globe is under intense pressure from human activity and over-exploitation. Illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade, poor governance, and corruption have significant negative impacts on ecosystems (e.g. deforestation, forest degradation) and the loss of multiple wild species, affecting the integrity of whole ecosystems, contributing to climate change, and negatively impacting local livelihoods, economic …

Official Launch of the International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade

September 6th 2021

at the IUCN WCC in Marseille. Identifying and reducing human health risks from wildlife trade needs an internationally coordinated and effective approach. To this end, the German Government is officially launching the International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille.