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Are we heading towards an epidemic of pandemics?

Audio 48:30

Queue for an anti-Covid test in Shanghai, April 4, 2022 (Illustration image).

AP - Ding Ting

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

1 min

The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the dramatic consequences of man's destruction of ecosystems... One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction due to deforestation.

And when biodiversity declines, infectious diseases appear... The WHO counts four or five each year.

And it is 70% of zoonoses, that is to say diseases present in animals before being transmitted and developing in humans.

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It therefore took a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV 2, to kill some 6 million people and paralyze the whole world for us to understand that biodiversity is essential for our health because everything is linked.

This is demonstrated by Marie-Monique Robin's new documentary "

 ", inspired by the eponymous book which comes out in pocket, with an unpublished afterword.

For this film, Marie-Monique Robin and the actress Juliette Binoche went to meet twelve scientists who work on biodiversity in 8 countries (from Mexico to Thailand via Kenya or Gabon).

Guest:

Marie-Monique Robin,

journalist, author, director of “ 

 ”.

The documentary will be broadcast on Ushuaia TV on May 22, 2022, on France TV Outre mer on May 23, and later on RTBF in Belgium, RTS and RSI in Switzerland.

Debate screenings are currently taking place throughout France, but also in Geneva on May 4 and Brussels on May 11.

All the dates can be found on the Facebook page of the film or on Marie-Monique Robin's page.

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