'Close the tap!': COVID-19 and the need for convivial conservation

When 2020 was declared a 'super year' for biodiversity conservation, no one suspected that a particular form of this biodiversity would proliferate to such an extent as to bring all of the anticipated activity to a screeching halt. With species and ecosystems in dangerous decline the world over (IPBES 2019), there is growing recognition that previous conservation strategies have been largely inadequate to tackle the challenges they face, and hence that something radically different is needed (Kareiva 'et al.' 2012; Wuerthner 'et al.' 2015).