Chapter 14
Biodiversity Conservation: An Imperial
Need in Combatting Pandemic
and Healthcare Emergencies
Umme Abiha, Sparsh Phutela, and Susmita Shukla
Abstract The advent of COVID-19 has infected millions of people causing healthcare emergencies worldwide. Biologists and environmentalists have always stressed
on the impact of habitat fragmentation, deforestation, and animal poaching on human
health. The outbreak of various zoonotic scourges has incremented the levels of risk
in human population because of direct and indirect interaction with human chain.
Human health is directly associated with animal health and is one of the important
part of an ecosystem, the balance of which is disrupted due to anthropogenic activities which has disrupted an ecological balance due to which biodiversity is greatly
affected and is reducing at a faster pace promoting a spread of diseases through
animals to humans. COVID-19 is a serious concern that puts human life to risk,
however, strategies like Global Lockdown which is referred as the period of “Great
Pause” has helped to recover rare species of Flora and Fauna with reduced pollution
levels, cleaner air and water. In order to quell the further on-spread of pandemic
or any other avant-guarded health emergency, biodiversity shall be preserved. This
chapter highlights the vitality of conserving biodiversity to renounce the healthcare
challenges addressing the scenario of novel coronavirus.
Keywords Habitat destruction · COVID-19 · Ecosystem · Anthropogenic ·
Biodiversity
U. Abiha · S. Phutela · S. Shukla (B)
Applied Plant Biotechnology Research Lab, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University,
Noida, UP, India
e-mail: sshukla3@amity.edu
U. Abiha
e-mail: ummeabiha04@gmail.com
S. Phutela
e-mail: Sparshphtl26@gmail.com
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Biodiversity Conservation: An Imperial
Need in Combatting Pandemic
and Healthcare Emergencies
Umme Abiha, Sparsh Phutela, and Susmita Shukla
Abstract The advent of COVID-19 has infected millions of people causing healthcare emergencies worldwide. Biologists and environmentalists have always stressed
on the impact of habitat fragmentation, deforestation, and animal poaching on human
health. The outbreak of various zoonotic scourges has incremented the levels of risk
in human population because of direct and indirect interaction with human chain.
Human health is directly associated with animal health and is one of the important
part of an ecosystem, the balance of which is disrupted due to anthropogenic activities which has disrupted an ecological balance due to which biodiversity is greatly
affected and is reducing at a faster pace promoting a spread of diseases through
animals to humans. COVID-19 is a serious concern that puts human life to risk,
however, strategies like Global Lockdown which is referred as the period of “Great
Pause” has helped to recover rare species of Flora and Fauna with reduced pollution
levels, cleaner air and water. In order to quell the further on-spread of pandemic
or any other avant-guarded health emergency, biodiversity shall be preserved. This
chapter highlights the vitality of conserving biodiversity to renounce the healthcare
challenges addressing the scenario of novel coronavirus.
Keywords Habitat destruction · COVID-19 · Ecosystem · Anthropogenic ·
Biodiversity
U. Abiha · S. Phutela · S. Shukla (B)
Applied Plant Biotechnology Research Lab, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University,
Noida, UP, India
e-mail: sshukla3@amity.edu
U. Abiha
e-mail: ummeabiha04@gmail.com
S. Phutela
e-mail: Sparshphtl26@gmail.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
C. Chakraborty et al. (eds.), The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66490-9_14
323