Isolation Animals: The Bad

In the third and final part in our Isolation Animals series, we look into the negative effects of COVID-19 on animals. In keeping with this episode’s “bad news” theme, this episode was much harder to record and took much longer to get out than the others - one challenge being keeping up with news in rapidly changing situations.

Here, we discuss how COVID-19 is changing attitudes towards some animals, how changing human behaviour is affecting wildlife conservation, and how certain wildlife protections are being weakened.

Isolation Animals: The Good

Need some good news? In this episode, we discuss how lockdown is affecting wildlife - in good ways. From brighter bees to healthier hedgehogs, find out how animals might be making the most of this situation.

If all this episode feels one-sided, don’t worry…there’s more to come in our next episode.

This episode features audio from the Dawn Chorus project by BIOTOPIA and the Nantesbuch Foundation: https://dawn-chorus.org/. These audio recordings are from (links below):

• Grampians, Australia

• Bengaluru, India

• South Africa

• Dresden, Germany

• Umeå, Sweden

• Taiwan

• North Carolina, USA

• Saskatchewan, Canada

• Playa del Carmen, Mexico

• São Paulo, Brazil