IN THE midst of the coronavirus pandemic, many of us have become more aware of nature. Conservationist Richard Corlett has spent the past few months in London, where normally he would hear constant noise from buses, aeroplanes and ferries. "They're all gone," says Corlett, who usually works at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in Yunnan, China. "Birdsong is all I hear in the morning. This is the experience of tens of millions worldwide." But while coronavirus measures may be good for some species (see "Are any animals benefitting from coronavirus lockdowns?" right), they have also crippled two crucial industries: ecotourism and legal trophy hunting. "That's the two main things that bring money to wildlife conservation," says Marine Drouilly, who works for the Panthera charity in Cape Town, South Africa.
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机译：在冠状病毒大流行中，我们中的许多人都更加了解自然。 Victenatist Richard Corlett在过去的几个月里度过了伦敦，通常他会听到公共汽车，飞机和渡轮的恒定噪音。 “他们都走了，”Corlett说，他们通常在云南，云南，中国的西双版纳热带植物园工作。 “鸟类是我早上听到的。这是全球数百万的经验。”但是，虽然冠状病毒措施可能对某些物种有好处（见“是冠心病锁定的任何动物吗？”右），他们也瘫痪了两个重要产业：生态旅游和法律奖杯狩猎。 “这是为野生动物保护提供资金的两种主要事情，”南非开普敦的Panthera慈善机构工作的海洋德鲁利说。
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