Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause disease in animals. Covid-19 is one of several such viruses that have made the jump from animals to humans. So far, the evidence suggests that the virus was first transmitted to humans at a seafood market in Wuhan, China.

Authors: Dan Challender, Amy Hinsley, Diogo Veríssimo, Michael 't Sas-Rolfes

2020 was supposed to be a super year for nature. Instead we got a pandemic.

Mountain ungulates—wild sheep and goats of the subfamily Caprinae—mark the grandeur of montane ecosystems. In India, the term mountain ungulate often invokes flamboyant images of species such as the Ibex Capra sibirica or markhor Capra falconeri standing on the steep, high cliffs of the Himalaya. But there is another species, often overlooked, which lives in the mountains of the Western Ghats…

Dr Dan Challender, ICCS member and Chair, IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group says that there isn't evidence confirming pangolins as an intermediate host, and that other species should be the focus of research too.