HSVMA TOWN HALL

The Origins of COVID-19: Links to the Global Wildlife Trade

Presented by Teresa Telecky, PhD

8:00-8:45 pm ET/5:00-5:45 pm PT, Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Registration is FREE for all participants.

Note: There are NO continuing education credits available for this webinar. 

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HSVMA hosts Dr. Teresa Telecky, PhD, a zoologist and Vice President, Wildlife, for Humane Society International (HSI), who will explain the suspected origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its relationship to the wildlife trade.  She will also outline HSI’s efforts to move governments around the world to ban wildlife trade, transport and consumption in order to reduce the risk of yet another pandemic of zoonotic origin. An overview of federal and state legislation aimed at ending the wildlife trade and shutting down live wildlife markets in the US will be given.  A Q&A session with Dr. Telecky will follow.

This webinar is FREE for all attendees.

PRESENTER: Teresa Telecky, PhD

Teresa Telecky, PhD, is a zoologist and Vice President, Wildlife, for Humane Society International (HSI). She joined the Humane Society of the United States staff in 1990 and has, over the past 30 years, led the organization’s efforts to reduce the wildlife trade.

Dr. Telecky is an expert on the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and serves as the Executive Director and Vice President of the Species Survival Network, an international coalition of non-governmental environmental organizations committed to the promotion, enhancement and strict enforcement of CITES.

Dr. Telecky has authored or co-authored six published scientific papers on animal behavior and endocrinology, as well as numerous technical reports of the HSI, including Big Game, Big Bucks: The Alarming Growth of the American Trophy Hunting Industry; CAMPFIRE: A Close Look at the Costs and Consequences; and Reptiles as Pets: An Examination of the Trade in Live Reptiles in the United States.

Following a post-doctoral fellowship with the National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki Japan, Dr. Telecky began work for HSI in 1990, specializing in the international wildlife trade.

She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in zoology from the University of Nevada, Reno, and her doctorate in zoology from the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

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