Engage with animal welfare in conservation

Sekar, Nitin; Shiller, Derek

doi:10.1126/science.aba7271

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“…Robust information on pasture damage and risk towards aircraft are needed to justify lethal control. However, if lethal control is warranted, harvesting swan eggs could provide an alternative means to control populations in problem areas without wasting resources, while also recognizing Māori rights to manage resources in culturally appropriate ways (Lynch & Blumstein, 2020; Sekar & Shiller, 2020). In these cases, using the low‐impact strategies outlined above may be counter‐productive, and more intensive strategies (e.g.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of customary egg harvest regimes on hatching success of a culturally important waterfowl species

Herse

Tylianakis

Scott³

et al. 2021

People and Nature

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Effects of customary egg harvest regimes on hatching success of a culturally important waterfowl species

Herse

Tylianakis

Scott³

et al. 2021

People and Nature

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“…Moreover, a comprehensive utilitarian ethical assessment of trophy hunting should include animal welfare (e.g. Morris, 2020; Sekar & Shiller, 2020) and public outrage (e.g. Hampton & Teh‐White, 2019) in the negative consequences of the practice.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the negative consequences, two additional concerns are noteworthy. Animal welfare considerations (when understood in terms of the feelings of sentient animals; see Jones, 2013; Morris, 2020; Sekar & Shiller, 2020) need to be accounted for, particularly in cases where trophy animals suffer from a painful death, as well as instances where culling an animal causes a feeling of grief in its conspecifics (see Flynn, 2019).…”

Section: Utilitarianismmentioning

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Trophy hunting and conservation: Do the major ethical theories converge in opposition to trophy hunting?

Ghasemi

2020

People and Nature

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Ethical concerns are at the heart of the ongoing debate on trophy hunting; however, so far, most studies have addressed the issue from a single ethical perspective. These studies, approaching the subject from different ethical perspectives, have reached different conclusions. For instance, those who support trophy hunting as a conservation strategy usually adopt a utilitarian perspective, while those who adopt a deontological perspective usually oppose it. The analysis presented in this paper challenges the ethical justification of trophy hunting based on a utilitarian perspective, and it also suggests that trophy hunting is problematic from the perspectives of both deontology and virtue theory. This paper supports a version of Bryan Norton's ‘convergence hypothesis’ (Norton, 1991). Although holism and anthropocentrism in environmental ethics are usually presented as fundamentally opposed views, Norton argued that their conclusions for policy converge, at least when a sufficiently broad and long‐range view of human interests are considered. Analogously, this paper proposes that, regarding trophy hunting, the implications of three major traditional perspectives in ethics (i.e. utilitarianism, deontology and virtue theory) may converge in opposition to the practice of trophy hunting. The final section of this paper recommends some ways authorities and policymakers can address these ethical concerns and presents a view of the future. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

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“…Both predation and competition have a central role in ecosystems, thus conservation science cannot always avoid challenging decisions regarding animal welfare (Sekar and Shiller 2020). Scientific evidence on post-fire predator activity needs to be increased.…”

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Fires in nature: a review of the challenges for wild animals

Gutiérrez

Miguel

2021

EuroJEcol

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Animals living in the wild are exposed to numerous challenges, such as fires, that can lead to suffering. The impacts of fire have been studied in different branches of ecology, but studies of its effects on the welfare of individual animals remain scarce. The current review aims to synthesize a sample of relevant aspects regarding fire’s negative effects on wild animals. We mainly focus on the immediate impacts of fire on individuals. How animals respond to fire depends on many factors including their life history, evolutionary adaptations to fire, and individual stress coping styles, in addition to the characteristics of the fire. The fundamentals of carrying out future work for animal rescue and prevention of animal harms in fires were also explored. Fires may increase the risk of injury, disease, stress, and mortality for animals living in the wild, resulting in physiological and psychological harm, experiences of suffering, discomfort and pain, and long-term detrimental consequences. Wild animals can benefit from effective rescue, rehabilitation, and release during fires, and post-release monitoring must accurately evaluate their outcome success. The resulting information can be used to educate veterinarians, rehabilitators, and the public in the prevention of the suffering and deaths of as many animals as possible in future fire events, which ultimately benefits animal welfare. This review provides a better understanding of how fire compromises animal welfare, providing an example of how to use the knowledge gathered in animal ecology to examine the welfare of wild animals. It can help raise concern for the situation of wild animals as individuals, and to develop the field of welfare biology, by identifying promising future lines of research.

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Engage with animal welfare in conservation

Abstract: Conservation could better promote not just the quantity of species but the quality of animal life

Cited by 24 publications

References 13 publications

Effects of customary egg harvest regimes on hatching success of a culturally important waterfowl species

Effects of customary egg harvest regimes on hatching success of a culturally important waterfowl species

Trophy hunting and conservation: Do the major ethical theories converge in opposition to trophy hunting?

Fires in nature: a review of the challenges for wild animals

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