In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Support Network for African Development (ISNAD-Africa) in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) implemented the Africa4Nature Health (A4NH) Initiative. The seven-week initiative was implemented in two dimensions, namely, exploratory research and social media campaign.

The research studied and analysed the various linkages between COVID-19 and nature including the implications of COVID-19 on various themes of human livelihood. The study finds employment, poverty, water, waste management, renewable energy, wildlife, green economy, and food security as major themes of human livelihood impacted by COVID-19 in Africa. The report of the study will be made public soon.

The social media arm of the initiative campaigned on the need for humanity to re-calibrate our interactions with nature; the central focus of the post-2020 nature conservation and biodiversity framework, the “New Deal for Nature and People”.

The video messages on Facebook were seen by a total of 4,124,091 people in African countries with up to 2,528,622 people actively engaged while 919,512 people took actions based on the video messages. On the other hand, the video messages on Instagram had 350,394 views while the tweets engaged high level stakeholders including Nigeria’s Minister of State for Environment, UNEP’s Regional Director for Africa and former Minister of Environment, Republic of Benin, UN Habitat Youth, UNFCCC CTCN Director, among others.

The campaign also fed into thirteen (13) news stories on frontline newspapers such as Guardian Newspapers (Nigeria), Authority Newspapers (Nigeria), World News Monitor (Austria) among other news platforms.  Please find some links below:

S/N	Caption	Media Platform	Weblink
Mainstream Media Organisations
1	UN warns against wildlife encroachment to reduce one billion yearly illnesses	The Guardian Newspaper, Nigeria	https://guardian.ng/news/un-warns-against-wildlife-encroachment-to-reduce-one-billion-yearly-illnesses/
2	UN raises alarm on wildlife encroachment	The Guardian Newspaper, Nigeria	https://guardian.ng/news/un-raises-alarm-on-wildlife-encroachment/
3	UN warns against wildlife encroachment to reduce one billion yearly illnesses	World News Monitor, Austria	https://world-news-monitor.com/climate/2020/06/13/un-warns-against-wildlife-encroachment-to-reduce-one-billion-yearly-illnesses-2/
4	UN raises alarm on wildlife encroachment	Press Reader	https://www.pressreader.com/nigeria/the-guardian-nigeria/20200614/281556588069649
5	Group decries depletion of forest reserves	The Guardian Newspaper, Nigeria	https://guardian.ng/property/group-decries-depletion-of-forest-reserves/
6	Group decries depletion of forest reserves	Blueprint Newspaper, Nigeria	https://www.blueprint.ng/group-decries-depletion-of-forest-reserves/
7	New Deal for Nature and People: Nature is essential for People’s wellbeing, health and prosperity in Africa	Authority Newspaper, Nigeria	https://authorityngr.com/2020/05/31/new-deal-for-nature-and-people-nature-is-essential-for-people-well-being-health-and-economic-prosperity-in-africa/
8	Increase COVID-19 Palliatives to reduce over Exploitation of Nature Expert	Authority Newspaper, Nigeria	https://authorityngr.com/2020/05/10/increase-covid-19-palliatives-to-reduce-over-exploitation-of-nature-expert/
9	New Deal for Nature and People	Green White Green (gwg.ng), Nigeria	https://gwg.ng/2020/05/30/new-deal-for-nature-and-people/
Blogs
10	UN warns against wildlife encroachment to reduce one billion yearly illnesses	Vegan Authority	https://veganauthority.com/un-warns-against-wildlife-encroachment-to-reduce-one-billion-yearly-illnesses/gv9490.html
11	UN warns against wildlife encroachment to reduce one billion yearly illnesses	Infodigest Nigeria	https://infodigest.com.ng/un-warns-against-wildlife-encroachment-to-reduce-one-billion-yearly-illnesses-the-guardian-nigeria-news/
12	Group decries depletion of forest reserves	9ice9ja Nigeria	https://www.9ice9ja.com.ng/unique-viewer.php?type=post&post_id=3648/roup-decries-depletion-of-forest-reserves
13	Group decries depletion of forest reserves	My Place	https://www.myplace.com.ng/group-decries-depletion-of-forest-reserves/