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A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.<\/p>\n

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In the early months of the Covid pandemic, when every bit of news seemed bleak, there was one heartwarming narrative that took hold: With humans stuck in their homes, the world was safe again for wild animals, which could now wander freely through cities, parking lots or fields that once might have been crowded with people.<\/p>\n

But a new global study<\/a>, which used wildlife cameras to track human and animal activity during the Covid lockdowns, suggests that the story was not that simple.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went in with a somewhat simplistic notion,\u201d said Cole Burton, a wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of British Columbia, who led the research. \u201cYou know, humans stop, animals are going to breathe a sigh of relief and move around more naturally. And what we saw was quite different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although humans disappeared from some places during the lockdowns, they surged into others, like parks that remained open when little else was, the researchers found. And there was enormous variability in how wild mammals responded to changes in human behavior. Carnivores and animals living in remote, rural places, for instance, were more active when people faded from the landscape, while the opposite was generally true for large herbivores and urban animals.<\/p>\n

The study, which was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on Monday, deepens and complicates<\/a> scientists\u2019 understanding of what has been called the \u201canthropause,\u201d<\/a> when pandemic lockdowns radically altered human behavior. It also highlights the nuanced ways in which humans affect the lives of wild animals, as well as the need for varied and multifaceted conservation efforts, the authors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no \u2018one size fits all\u2019 solution when it comes to mitigating the impacts of human activity on wildlife,\u201d said Kaitlyn Gaynor, a wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of British Columbia. \u201cBecause we see that not all species are responding similarly to people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.In the early months of the Covid pandemic, when every bit of news seemed bleak, there was one heartwarming narrative that took hold: With humans stuck in their homes, the world was safe again for wild animals, which could now wander freely through cities, parking lots or fields that once might have been crowded with people.But a new global study, which used wildlife cameras to track human and animal activity during the Covid lockdowns, suggests that the story was not that simple.\u201cWe went in with a somewhat simplistic notion,\u201d said Cole Burton, a wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of British Columbia, who led the research. \u201cYou know, humans stop, animals are going to breathe a sigh of relief and move around more naturally. And what we saw was quite different.\u201dAlthough humans disappeared from some places during the lockdowns, they surged into others, like parks that remained open when little else was, the researchers found. And there was enormous variability in how wild mammals responded to changes in human behavior. Carnivores and animals living in remote, rural places, for instance, were more active when people faded from the landscape, while the opposite was generally true for large herbivores and urban animals.The study, which was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on Monday, deepens and complicates scientists\u2019 understanding of what has been called the \u201canthropause,\u201d when pandemic lockdowns radically altered human behavior. It also highlights the nuanced ways in which humans affect the lives of wild animals, as well as the need for varied and multifaceted conservation efforts, the authors said.\u201cThere\u2019s no \u2018one size fits all\u2019 solution when it comes to mitigating the impacts of human activity on wildlife,\u201d said Kaitlyn Gaynor, a wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of British Columbia. \u201cBecause we see that not all species are responding similarly to people.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2384,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}