Pei Su: COVID-19, The Wildlife Trade, and China

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Philosophy, Society & Culture

5.0 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode was recorded on Wednesday April 15th as a live webinar conversation between Pei Su, the Executive Director and Co-founder of ACTAsia and myself. It's unedited and somewhat messy sound-wise but we wanted to get it out as soon as possible.

There are a lot of rumors and misinformation getting passed around the globe in terms of China's wildlife trade and markets: what has been banned, what hasn't, and what all of it means. In today's conversation, Pei Su answers many of my questions about what's happening on the ground in China, what the bans actually mean, and where the many loopholes lie.

Pei Su has been on the front lines to create a better world for animals for three decades. She is a wealth of knowledge, a force and an inspiration.

In 2011, she co-founded ACTAsia – an organization that's dedicated to creating change in China through humane education. What that means is that they go into schools and train the teachers to teach a 6-year program called Caring for Life Education. The kids are in the program from ages 6 -12 and they learn animal welfare, empathy toward animals, environmental issues, social welfare, and citizenship. To date, 80,000 kids have gone through Caring For Life and 2,000 teachers have been trained. Pei believes that things won't really change for animals in China until people start to view them differently – and, the best people for that job are the children – as they will create change for generations to come.

There is also a ton of good information on what's happening in China on ACTAsia's website.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. Today's episode was recorded yesterday
0:17.7	as a live webinar conversation between Pei Sioux, the executive director, and co-founder of Act Asia, and myself.
0:26.0	So it's unedited, it's somewhat messy sound-wise, but we wanted to get it out as soon as
0:31.8	possible.
0:33.0	The webinar was called COVID-19, the wildlife trade, and China.
0:37.4	There are a lot of rumors and a ton of misinformation
0:41.0	getting passed around the globe in terms of China's wildlife trade and
0:44.5	markets. What's been banned, what hasn't, and what all of it means. In our conversation
0:49.9	pay answers many of my questions about what's happening on the ground in China and many
0:55.2	questions from people who attended the webinar.
0:58.4	Pay has been on the front lines to create a better world for animals for three decades.
1:03.0	She's a wealth of knowledge.
1:05.0	She is a force and an inspiration. My name is Elizabeth Novogratz and I'm the host of a podcast called Species Unite.
1:23.6	And Pay has been on Species Unite before and her knowledge and just her passion
1:31.0	for all things, animal as well as humans,
1:34.7	has just floored me since I first met her.
1:37.6	And she's incredibly knowledgeable
1:39.9	about what's happening right now in China with wildlife markets and all in connection to COVID-19.
1:47.6	And since there are so many rumors and so much misinformation happening throughout the world.
1:54.4	I thought it would make sense to get pay on here and to really have her answer my questions and then your questions.
2:03.0	So we'll start with just a basic getting an understanding of what's going on and also what
2:10.0	we can do to support Pay and Act Asia and to support some of these you know what just
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