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Piroska Pomogyi, environmental expert, stands amid reed at Lake Balaton near Keszthely, Hungary, February 23, 2021. Picture taken February 23, 2021. (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo) Asharq Al-Awsat
At least 22 countries enacted or proposed changes during the coronavirus pandemic that weaken environmental regulation, endangering protected areas around the globe, according to a research paper published on Thursday.
Brazil, India, and the United States are the hotspots of COVID-era rollbacks, said the paper, part of a wider report published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on how protected areas were affected by the pandemic. During a time when all eyes were obviously on COVID . you had governments reducing budgets or weakening environmental protection, said Mariana Napolitano Ferreira, head of science at WWF Brazil and one of 150 researchers who wrote the report
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