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Miaomiao at the British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies’ 2020 Annual Conference

Miaomiao Tian recently participated in the British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies’ 2020 Annual Conference (online). The theme of this year’s conference was “China and the Shared Future: Transformation, Collaboration, and Challenges.” Her presentation explored challenges and changes associated with wildlife trade and public health.

Her talk, entitled “How are public health objectives reshaping conservation governance in China?”, focused on changes in China’s approach to wildlife legislation after coronavirus. Because trade of bushmeat was regarded as the likely cause of the COVID-19 outbreak, there have been numerous recent legal reforms focused on wildlife in order to reduce zoonotic disease. In her presentation, Miaomiao compared China’s wildlife conservation before and after the coronavirus in 3 aspects, 1. Related laws and policies (the government enlarged the scope of protected wild animals); 2. Deep reforms to wildlife breeding industries (all wildlife breeding farms producing bushmeat were closed, and there is a newly enacted National catalogue guiding which animal can now be bred), and 3. A new wave criminalisation of Illegal wildlife trade (there is heavier punishment for IWT crimes after COVID-19). Through these comparisons, she then explored how these reflect shifts in the guiding ideologies that underpin species conservation in China.

You can follow Miaomiao on Twitter @mt17633.

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