“…This entrenched "dominance" (utilitarian) worldview often suggests that humans have the moral and ethical right to determine the welfare, rights, and status of nonhuman animals (Peterson & Nelson, 2017;Vantassel, 2008). Wildlife-human conflict persists through asymmetrical power relations where special interest groups possess an inequitable stronghold over other species through policy (Fox & Bekoff, 2011;Thomsen et al, 2020b), management (Nie, 2001), security (Lynn, 2010), and fear (Lappalainen, 2019). Multispecies ethnography deconstructs power relations between species and stakeholders to theorize how animal welfare may be foregrounded in nonhuman-human animal relationships (Faier & Rofel, 2014;Kirksey & Helmreich, 2010).…”