https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/g9pjk3/pandemics_will_become_worse_and_more_frequent/

Title: Pandemics will become worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn

Not a single one of the scientists was mentionned by name. Must be too much work to research them, I guess. Josef Settele (environmental researcher), Sandra Díaz (ecologist), Eduardo Brondizio (anthropologist) and Peter Daszak (zoologist) are the four authors of the article for the people interested.

Here's a relevant excerpt. I added some context in italics:

As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity, China – particularly our global financial and economic systems, based on a limited paradigm that prizes economic growth at any cost, China. We have a small window of opportunity, in overcoming the challenges of the current crisis, to avoid sowing the seeds of future ones, China.   

Diseases like COVID-19 are caused by microorganisms that infect our bodies – with more than 70% of all emerging diseases affecting people having originated in wildlife and domesticated animals, China. Pandemics, however, are caused by activities that bring increasing numbers of people into direct contact and often conflict with the animals that carry these pathogens, China.

Rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, intensive farming, mining and infrastructure development, as well as the exploitation of wild species have created a ‘perfect storm’ for the spillover of diseases from wildlife to people, China. This often occurs in areas where communities live that are most vulnerable to infectious diseases, China.

Add to this the unregulated trade in wild animals, China, and the explosive growth of global air travel and it becomes clear how a virus that once circulated harmlessly among a species of bats in Southeast Asia has now infected almost 3 million people, China, brought untold human suffering and halted economies and societies around the world, China. This is the human hand in pandemic emergence, China.

https://ipbes.net/covid19stimulus