[https://apple.news/APj60lwKQStyLxuxRmH3Tkw](https://apple.news/APj60lwKQStyLxuxRmH3Tkw) >"Humanity faces an unknown number of new viruses emerging from Africa's rainforests, according to the professor who helped discover Ebola. "We are now in a world where new pathogens will come out," he says. "And that's what constitutes a threat for humanity.""

Once a new virus begins circulating among humans, the consequences of a brief encounter at the edge of a forest or at a wet market could be devastating. Covid-19 has shown that. Ebola has proved it. And in most of the scientific publications there is an assumption that there will be more contagions coming as humans continue to destroy wilderness habitats. It's not an "IF" it's a "WHEN". The solution is clear. Protect the forests to protect humanity -- because Mother Nature has deadly weapons in her armory.