The Ethics of Reintroducing Large Carnivores: The Case of the California Grizzly

Lee, A; Laird, A.M.; Brann, L; Coxon, C; Hamilton, AJ; Lawhon, LA; Martin, JA; Rehnberg, N; Tyrrell, BP; Welch, Zoë S.; Hale, Benjamin; Alagona, PS

doi:10.4103/cs.cs_20_131

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“…An example of successful integration, and consideration, of ethics in rewilding can be found in Lee et al. (2021) who critically and thoroughly explore the ethical realities of grizzly rewilding in California; and we argue this kind of assessment must be undertaken for each proposed rewilding scheme.…”

Section: Context Dependency In Rewilding the Carbon Cyclementioning

confidence: 98%

“…Many rewilding scholars explicitly state that rewilding must incorporate humans within nature (Carver et al, 2021), a sentiment which we wholeheartedly support. An example of successful integration, and consideration, of ethics in rewilding can be found in Lee et al (2021) who critically and thoroughly explore the ethical realities of grizzly rewilding in California; and we argue this kind of assessment must be undertaken for each proposed rewilding scheme.…”

Section: The Ethical Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further, it requires that all participants balance the interests, needs and functions of humans, animals and ecosystems together. Human rights, animal welfare, environmental justice, intrinsic values and ecosystem functionality represent some of the interwoven ethical issues that are at stake in determining the outcome of rewilding efforts (Lee et al., 2021), and thus also apply to TRACC endeavours.…”

Section: Context Dependency In Rewilding the Carbon Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Without each of these full considerations, we risk a disconnect between the generalizations advertised in carbon offset programs, conservationists' implementations, ecological accuracy, and social and ethical impacts. Effectively navigating these ethical complexities requires greater collaboration with experts in human and environmental ethics, enabling well‐informed and ethically sound decisions that foster coexistence between humans and wildlife in a given landscape (Ferraro et al., 2021; Lee et al., 2021; Nelson et al., 2021).…”

Section: Context Dependency In Rewilding the Carbon Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

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Context matters when rewilding for climate change

Burak,

Ferraro,

Orrick

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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There is a cross‐sectoral push among conservationists to simultaneously mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change, especially as the latter increasingly threatens the former. Growing evidence demonstrates that animals can have substantial impacts on carbon cycling. As such, there are increasing calls to use animal conservation and rewilding to dually overcome biodiversity loss and mitigate climate change. Specifically, trophic rewilding—which involves restoring intact animal communities, functional roles and trophic structure within food webs, and natural ecosystem processes—utilizes a rewilding framework to simultaneously support biodiversity conservation and carbon capture and storage. Trophic rewilding is a complex conservation approach to mitigating climate change, involving accurate estimations of baseline conditions and continuous monitoring of carbon cycling and species impacts within a system. It is also predicated on garnering social support for both the reintroduction and monitoring of a species, and obtaining the animals themselves. We are excited by the growing interest in this potential, but emphasize that a species' net impact on ecosystem carbon dynamics is context‐dependent. Caution is required whenever biodiversity conservation (including rewilding), climate change mitigation, and human welfare do not readily align. Hence—similar to other nature‐based solutions—these burgeoning efforts must avoid sweeping generalizations. To bolster successful trophic rewilding, we highlight a range of social and ecological context dependencies that can vary outcomes in a rewilded carbon cycle and provide ethical considerations for successful implementation. We conclude with an overview of the available technology to predict and monitor progress toward both biodiversity and climate mitigation goals. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Section: Context Dependency In Rewilding the Carbon Cyclementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: The Ethical Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Context Dependency In Rewilding the Carbon Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Context Dependency In Rewilding the Carbon Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

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Context matters when rewilding for climate change

Burak,

Ferraro,

Orrick

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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“…Despite the central role of ethics in wildlife management decisions, ethical analysis is rarely conducted in an explicit, transparent, or systematic fashion (Decker et al 2019, Thulin and Röcklinsberg 2020, Lee et al 2021, Treves et al 2021). To the extent ethics have been considered in decision‐making, Nelson et al (2016) argue that conservation is overly reliant on simple evaluation of consequences, ignoring other important forms of ethical reasoning that are relevant to wildlife management.…”

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A practical framework for ethics assessment in wildlife management decision‐making

Smith,

Tantillo,

Hale

et al. 2023

J Wildl Manag

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Wildlife professionals lack a framework and process for incorporating ethical considerations in a systematic and transparent way, along with ecological and social science, to support wildlife management decision‐making. We provide such a framework and process based on 3 of the major theoretical branches ethicists have developed in Western culture: consequentialist moral theory, which focuses on consequences and outcomes; principle‐ and rule‐based approaches that deal with what is considered right or wrong; and virtue ethical theory, which considers factors such as character, virtue, and aesthetics. The framework can be used to anticipate the ethical consequences of alternative courses of action or taking no action. If wildlife professionals use this framework as an assessment tool to provide input into decision‐making, resulting decisions will be more transparent, better understood by stakeholders, and more consistent with public trust responsibilities.

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Learning from the past: opportunities for advancing ecological research and practice using palaeoecological data

Goodenough

Webb

2022

Oecologia

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Palaeoecology involves analysis of fossil and sub-fossil evidence preserved within sediments to understand past species distributions, habitats and ecosystems. However, while palaeoecological research is sometimes made relevant to contemporary ecology, especially to advance understanding of biogeographical theory or inform habitat-based conservation at specific sites, most ecologists do not routinely incorporate palaeoecological evidence into their work. Thus most crossdiscipline links are palaeoecology→ecology rather than ecology→palaeoecology. This is likely due to lack of awareness and/or the misnomer that palaeoecology invariably relates to the "distant past" (thousands of years) rather than being applicable to the "recent past" (last ~100-200 years). Here, we highlight opportunities for greater integration of palaeoecology within contemporary ecological research, policy, and practice. We identify situations where palaeoecology has been, or could be, used to: (1) quantify recent temporal change (e.g. population dynamics; predator-prey cycles); (2) "rewind" to a particular point in ecological time (e.g. setting restoration/rewilding targets; classifying cryptogenic species);(3) understand current ecological processes that are hard to study real-time (e.g. identifying keystone species; detecting tipping points); (4) complement primary data and historical records to bridge knowledge gaps (e.g. informing reintroductions and bioindicator frameworks); (5) disentangle natural and anthropogenic processes (e.g. climate change); and (6) draw palaeoecological analogues (e.g. impacts of pests). We conclude that the possibilities for better uniting ecology and palaeoecology to form an emerging cross-boundary paradigm are as extensive as they are exciting: we urge ecologists to learn from the past and seek opportunities to extend, improve, and strengthen their work using palaeoecological data.

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The Ethics of Reintroducing Large Carnivores: The Case of the California Grizzly

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Context matters when rewilding for climate change

Context matters when rewilding for climate change

A practical framework for ethics assessment in wildlife management decision‐making

Learning from the past: opportunities for advancing ecological research and practice using palaeoecological data

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