An extensive systematic search resulted in an overview of all the animal victims from covid litter found worldwide, including entanglements, ingestions, and entrapments. Thanks to nature photographers, animal rescue centers, birdwatchers and litter pickers, we learned a great deal about just how harmful PPE products can be. Monkeys, fishes, hedgehogs, penguins, crabs, and many more animals are affected, even pets like cats and dogs.
Read more: Article The effects of COVID-19 litter on animal life
Share your observations!
We started a database where anyone can share further observations of interactions between animals and PPE litter. As we only searched for articles in English and Dutch and found mainly cases from the UK, USA, and The Netherlands, we expect that there must be many more examples! Feel free to add your own observations or add new examples - from your local or national news, or social media - that are currently missing in the global overview. Let us know!
Find the overview at: www.covidlitter.com
Thanks.
It affected badly.
Auke-Florian Hiemstra
Thank yu for this platform
https://brill.com/view/journals/ab/71/2/article-p215_7.xml#:~:text=This%20resulted%20in%20the%20first,actually%20harming%20animals%20around%20us.
Thanks Suman Lata Tripathi for sharing our publication! I also linked in the text to the full manuscript here on Research Gate, but as it appeared open access, you can also read it directly on the publisher's website!
This must be a great research topic to be studied because availability of feed , housing and other management tools has hampered the mother's health, so ultimately there is a great impact of COVID19 on litters of animals.