The coronavirus pandemic has led to global lockdowns, on a scale we haven’t seen before. How successful we are in containing the disease only time will tell. There are however some positive outcomes. Pollution has reportedly gone down drastically and most cities are reporting clear blue skies and clean air. Another positive has been for the wildlife. Animals that usually avoided urban areas are now roaming the streets without fear. Here’s what city streets across the world look like these days.
People in Nara, Japan reported seeing deer that usually stay in the park, roaming in the streets.
A wild deer roams in a deserted street during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown in the port city of Trincomalee.
Here, ducks are pictured in front of the Comedie Francaise in Paris on the seventeenth day of a strict lockdown in France.
A squirrel enjoys a skip and a hop in an empty street in Mexico City.
Stray dogs gather on a deserted road in Kolkata.
A lion-tailed Macaque sits on a pole eating a snack at Berlin’s Zoologischer Garten zoo on April 1, 2020.
Coyotes roam the empty street in San Francisco.
A stray dog feeds her puppies in Srinagar.
According to the Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG), a one-year-old puma came down from the nearby mountains to the streets of Santiago in search of food.Deer take over East London while people stay indoors as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19.