Hermeneutics of Human-Animal Relations in the Wake of Rewilding

Tokarski, Mateusz

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“…The awareness of this limitation is important because it can also draw our attention to the limitations of the philosophical and rhetorical strategies used by environmentalists addressing the problematic issues surrounding coexistence with wildlife. It also opens the space for texts which, like ancient tragedies, directly address the refusal or the impossibility of thorough consolation and instead focus on the irreducibly tragic aspects of coexistence (Snyder 1990;Williams 1995;Steeves 1999;Jordan 2003;Tokarski 2019). We can heed this warning and include it more openly even in the philosophical, journalistic, and narrative texts which strive to address ecological discomforts.…”

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Consolations of Environmental Philosophy

Tokarski¹

2021

The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

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Due to successful protection and restoration efforts, humans and wild animals more and more often come to inhabit overlapping spaces. This is often experienced by humans as problematic, as animals may cause material damages to property and pose threats to humans and domesticated animals. These threats, as well as normative beliefs about belonging and culturally-based prejudices, often provoke distress or aggression towards animals. While philosophy has so far provided normative guidance as to what we should do in terms of developing proper relationships, the actual tools designed to facilitate the development of more peaceful cohabitation have been provided mostly by wildlife management and social sciences. In this contribution, I propose that environmental philosophy can provide conceptual tools easing the difficulties of cohabitation. One such tool is the practice of consolation. I begin by drawing a distinction between the contemporary and traditional forms of consolation. I further show that several common ethical arguments concerning cohabitation with wildlife can be seen as following the ancient concept of consolation. I close with some practical remarks regarding how environmental consolation could be practiced today in the context of difficult cohabitation with wildlife.

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“…For an overview of research and a more extended discussion of these dimensions, including further references, seeTokarski (2019).…”

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Tokarski¹

2021

The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

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“…The call for more inclusive ethics with changes from human domination toward co-existence patterns is also visible from reflections on different environmental protection practices. Thus, Tokarski (2019) believes that an implementation of rewilding policies requires understanding the needs and interests of wild animals and should consider possible harm from rewilding.…”

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Constructing regulation on assisted migration: findings from science and ethics

Lavrik

2021

SN Soc Sci

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Many scientists and environmentalists suggest using assisted migration (assisted colonization, managed relocation) as one of the responses to environmental degradation. Assisted migration (AM) is a translocation of animals and plants to the areas outside their native ranges suitable for them under the changing conditions. The international bodies, for example, the Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity, recognize AM as a possible conservation tool. Some jurisdictions inserted it within their law and policy documents such as the 2019 Translocation Operational Policy in New South Wales, Australia. As climate changes, a need for AM can proliferate at national and international levels and further development of the regulation would be needed. However, the tool is a controversial one, for example, due to the risks for the translocating organisms and for the recipient communities, e.g., in case of possible invasiveness of the translocating animals and plants or changes in disease dynamics. This article seeks to summarize the law-and policy-relevant findings from science and ethics concerning AM that could help to construct the regulation that maximizes the benefits of using this tool and minimizes its risks.

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“…(3) Acknowledging the importance of this constraint progressively led the Park to understand that taking into account perceptions and human behavioural responses is key to successful reintroductions (Tokarski, 2019). The Park had to accept that it could not tackle the proto-problem 'how are we to reintroduce a stable population of lynx?…”

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Analysing constraints to improve conservation decision-making: a theoretical framework and its application to the Northern Vosges, France

2021

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Summary Key to bridging knowing–doing gaps is analysis of the constraints binding interactions between decision-makers and conservation biologists to clarify the problems they address. We apply this analysis to decision situations in the Northern Vosges (France), which illustrate three kinds of constraints: governance, framework and initiative. We explore how conservation biologists can mitigate constraints so as to foster more ambitious conservation actions in each case. The first case explores attempts at reintroducing the lynx (Lynx lynx). In this case, we show that governance plays a key role, in the sense that conservation actions should focus on improving the acceptability of reintroductions to key stakeholders. The second case refers to water monitoring schemes. Here we show that framing is the dominant constraint. This means that conservation actions are tightly limited by the use of a restrictive scientific apparatus. The last case study, fish stock protection, is constrained by initiative. Here, decision-makers have too much leverage to implement solutions they favour, even if they are not the best options in conservation terms. Exploring how our framework relates to the existing literature allows us to highlight its usefulness for rationalizing conservation problem framing and for strengthening the ambitions of conservation actions.

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Hermeneutics of Human-Animal Relations in the Wake of Rewilding

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Consolations of Environmental Philosophy

Consolations of Environmental Philosophy

Constructing regulation on assisted migration: findings from science and ethics

Analysing constraints to improve conservation decision-making: a theoretical framework and its application to the Northern Vosges, France

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