Can nature heal itself? What the pandemic has shown us

In the dark early days of the coronavirus pandemic, when a death toll of 1 million was still unimaginable, there was one bright spot: nature appeared to be healing. With humans under lockdown, stories circulated about unusual animal sightings, like wild goats taking over a town in Wales -- and then became a joke about the public's thirst for signs of regeneration: New Yorkers claimed the return of Elmo to Times Square as proof of a great earthly rebalancing.

source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/world/pandemic-biodiversity-united-nations-summit-intl-scn/index.html