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As one of his key responsibilities. justin rowlatt, bbc news. you can hear prince william talking about the launch of the earthshot prize in a bbc news special, and there's a further interview with sir david attenborough in the new podcast, what planet are we 0n? both are available now on the bbc sounds app. it's been a bumper yearfor bats — but not in a good way. wildlife groups are reporting a record season for the number of baby bats being rescued after falling out of their roosts. extremes of hot and cold weather during the birthing season is thought to be behind the rise. john maguire r...

On this banana plantation in ghana. and, in the amazon, a football pitch of rainforest is cleared every minute for beef and soy that goes into animalfeed. a third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted. and this destruction has consequences. this isn't just about saving this isn'tjust about saving exotic creatures in remote places. research suggests the outbreak of covid—19 is linked to humans going more deep into the world, coming into contact with animals carrying diseases, like bats. doctor mark everard has worked for decades studying how humans and wildlife interact. if...

Are still working to identify the virus behind a pneumonia outbreak in the central city of wuhan... seven months on, the human cost of the coronavirus pandemic is still rising. worldwide 600,000 dead, nearly 16 million infected, the global economy in meltdown. so, how did we get here? this is an anti—terrorism door. it's designed to reduce drilling for several hours and is also technically explosion—proof. dr stephen baker works with some of the world's most dangerous viruses. he spent 12 years in south—east asia studying how they jump from animals to humans. early theories about how thi...

Professor, we know so many human illnesses have come from interaction with animals, do we need to rethink our interaction with the world, not just farming, our interaction with the world, not justfarming, and our interaction with the world, not just farming, and other wet markets, but what we eat, etc? is this not a massive wa ke—up but what we eat, etc? is this not a massive wake—up call?” but what we eat, etc? is this not a massive wake-up call? i think we really do and i think we need to realise that we are part of nature, nature is part of us, and we have to realise we are not invinc...

Virus, most similar to this sars covid virus, was found in bats but it's not this particular virus. so, yes, scientists have come to the agreement that more than likely sars covid originated in a virus in bats but somehow it got into humans. and how it got from bats to humans, particularly 40 or 70 years ago, we are not sure of yet. it originated in bats, then potentially got to another intermediate species, changed and then became very infectious to humans. potentially. being able to sequence the genomes of all living bat species and their tolerance to viruses, will that ultimately help us pe...