To stop new viruses jumping across to humans, we must protect and restore bat habitat. Here's why
- Written by Alison Peel, Senior Research Fellow in Wildlife Disease Ecology, Griffith University
Grey headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)Vivien Jones, Author providedBats have lived with coronaviruses for millennia. Details are still hazy about how one of these viruses evolved into SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID in humans. Did it go directly from bats to humans or via another animal species? When? And why? If we can’t answer...




