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Animal protection & Animal conservation — Comrades or enemies?
Books
- Bekoff, M. (2013) Ignoring nature no more: The case for compassionate conservation. University of Chicago Press
- Bekoff M, Pierce J. 2017. The animals’ agenda: freedom, compassion, and coexistence in the human age. Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts
- Brels, S. (2017). Le Droit du Bien-Être Animal dans le Monde: Évolution et Universalisation. Paris: L’Harmattan
- Fischer, B. (2019) Welfare Biology. Routledge
- Futhazar, G. (2020) Biodiversity, species protection, and animal welfare under international law. In: Peters A. (eds) Studies in Global Animal Law. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht (Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht), vol 290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
- Garson, J., Plutynski, A., Sarkar, S. (2017) The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Biodiversity.London, Routledge
- Johannsen, K. (2021) Wild animal ethics: The moral and political problem of wild animal suffering. Routledge
- Kagan, S. (2016) What’s Wrong with Speciesism? Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 1-21.
- Kolbert, E. (2014). The sixth extinction: An unnatural history. London: Henry Holt and Co
- Maier, D. S. (2013) What’s So Good about Biodiversity? A Call for Better Reasoning about Nature’s Value. Dordrecht, Springer
- Morgera, E., Razzaque, J. (2017). Biodiversity and nature protection law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
- Nussbaum, M. C. (2006) Frontiers of justice: Disability, nationality, species membership, Cambridge: Harvard University Press
- Ryf, P. (2016) Environmental ethics: The case of wild animals, Basel: University of Basel
- Sarkar, S. (2005) Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Articles
- Adam, R., Schaffner, J. (2017). International law and wildlife well-being: Moving from theory to action. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, 20, pp. 1–17
- Brels, S. (2017). A global approach to animal protection. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, 20, pp.105–12
- Bruskotter, J. T., et al.. (2019) Conservationists’ moral obligations toward wildlife: values and identity promote conservation conflict. Biological Conservation 240:108296
- Callen, A., et al. (2020) Envisioning the future with ‘compassionate conservation’: An ominous projection for native wildlife and biodiversity. Biological Conservation 241:108365
- Callicott, J. B. (1988) Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Back Together Again. Between the Species, vol. 4(1) pp. 163-169
- Campbell, I. J. (2018). Animal Welfare and Environmental Ethics: It’s Complicated. Ethics and the Environment, 23(1), 49–69.
- De Lucia, V. (2015). Competing narratives and complex genealogies: The ecosystem approach in international environmental law. Journal of Environmental Law, 27,pp. 91–117
- Faria, C., Paez, E. (2015) Animals in need: The problem of wild animal suffering and intervention in nature. Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism, 3, pp. 7-13
- Favre, B. (2020). Is there a need for a new, an ecological, understanding of legal animal rights?. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 11(2), 297-319.
- Favre, D. (2012). An international treaty for animal welfare. Animal Law, 18, pp. 237–280
- Fraser, D. (2010). Toward a synthesis of conservation and animal welfare science. Animal Welfare, 19(2),121-124
- Futhazar, G. (2020). The conceptual challenges of invasive alien species to non-human rights. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 11(2), 224-243.
- Fulton, G., Ford, H. A. (2002) The conflict between animal welfare and conservation. Pacific Conservation Biology 7(3):152-153
- Gamborg, C., Palmer, C., Sandoe, P. (2012) Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation: What Should We Try to Protect? Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):8
- Guichet, J.-L. (2013). La question animale dans l’éthique environnementaliste. Journal International de Bioéthique, 24, pp. 29–38
- Hadley, J. (2006) The duty to aid nonhuman animals in dire need. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 23, pp. 445-451
- Hampton, J. O., Warburton, B., Sandøe, P. (2019 Compassionate versus consequentialist conservation. Conservation Biology 33, pp. 751–759
- Harrop, S. (2003). From Cartel to Conservation and on to compassion: Animal welfare and the international whaling commission. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, 6, pp. 79–104.
- Harrop, S. (2011). Climate change, conservation and the place for wild animal welfare in international law. Journal of Environmental Law, 23, pp. 441–462.
- Horta, O. (2013) Zoopolis, intervention, and the state or nature. Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 1, pp. 113-125
- Horta, O. (2017) Animal suffering in nature: The case for intervention. Environmental Ethics, 39, pp. 261-279
- Manfredo, M. J., Urquiza-Haas, E. G., Carlos, A. W. D., Bruskotter, J. T., Dietsch, A. M. (2020) How anthropomorphism is changing the social context of modern wildlife conservation. Biological Conservation 241
- McShane, K. (2018) Why animal welfare is not biodiversity, ecosystem services, or human welfare: Toward a more complete assessment of climate impacts. Les ateliers de l’éthique 13(1), pp. 43-64
- Moen, O. M. (2016) The ethics of wild animal suffering. Etikk i Praksis – Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 10 (1), pp. 91-104
- Musschenga, A. W. (2002) Naturalness: Beyond animal welfare. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 15, pp. 171-186
- Nelson, M. P., Bruskotter, J. T., Vucetich, J. A., Chapron, G. (2016) Emotions and the ethics of consequence in conservation decisions: lessons from Cecil the Lion. Conservation Letters 9, pp. 302–306
- Ng, Y.-K. (1995) Towards welfare biology: Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering. Biology and Philosophy, 10, pp. 255-285
- Nyhus, P. J. (2016) Human-wildlife conflict and coexistence. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41, pp. 143-171
- Palmer, C. (2013) What (if anything) do we owe wild animals?. Between the Species, 16, pp. 15-38
- Palmer, C. (2018) Conservation strategies in a changing climate – Moving beyond an “animal liberation/environmental ethics” divide. Les ateliers de l’éthique 13(1), pp. 17-42
- Paquet, P. C., Darimont, C. T. (2010) Wildlife conservation and animal welfare: Two sides of the same coin? Animal welfare 19(2), pp. 177-190
- Sekar, N., & Shiller, D. (2020). Engage with animal welfare in conservation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 369(6504), 629–630.
- Scholtz, W. (2017). Injecting compassion into international wildlife law: From conservation to protection? Transnational Environmental Law, 6, pp. 463–483
- Sykes, K. (2011). Nations like unto yourselves: An inquiry into the status of a general principle of international law on animal welfare. Canadian Yearbook of International Law, 49, pp. 3–49
- Tomasik, B. (2015) The importance of wild animal suffering, Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism, 3, pp. 133-152
- Tremblay-Huet, S. (2018) Should environmental law learn from animal law? Compassion as a guiding principle for international environmental law instead of sustainable development. Revue québécoise de droit international 1(1), Hors-série septembre 2018 – Terre à terre : Environnement et approches critiques du droit, pp. 125-144
- Vucetich, J. A., Nelson, M. P. (2007) What are 60 warblers worth? Killing in the name of conservation. Oikos 116, pp. 1267–1278
- Waldau, P. (2011) Animal welfare and conservation: An essential connection. Minding Nature 4.1, pp. 12-16
- Wallach AD, et al. (2019) When all life counts in conservation. Conservation Biology 34(4)
- Wallach, A. D., Batavia, C., Bekoff, M., Alexander, S., Baker, L., Ben-Ami, D. et al. (2020) Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology 34(5), pp. 1097-1106
- Wandesforde-Smith, G., & Hart, L. A. (2015). Exploring the Borderlands Between Wild and Non-Wild Animals: Wildlife Law and Policy in Transition. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, 18(4), 269–275.
- White, S. (2013). Into the Void: International Law and the Protection of Animal Welfare. Global Policy, 4(4), 391–398.
Reports
- IPBES Workshop on Biodiversity and Pandemics Report (2020). Available at:
https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/2020-11/20201028%20IPBES%20Pandemics%20Workshop%20Report%20Plain%20Text%20Final_0.pdf - Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2020) Global Biodiversity Outlook 5. Montreal. Available at: https://www.cbd.int/gbo/gbo5/publication/gbo-5-en.pdf
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (1996) Biodiversity and Human Welfare. Available at:
https://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/ACA8333A4CB1D7F980256B67005B68F5/$file/dp72.pdf - World Economic Forum (2020) The global risks report, 15th edition.
Available at: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risk_Report_2020.pdf
Press
- CNN World, ‘The world set a 2020 deadline to save nature but not a single target was met, UN report says’. September 16, 2020, available at:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/16/world/un-biodiversity-report-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html - The Conversation, ‘Want to stop biodiversity loss? Give animals property rights’. April 12, 2011, available at:
https://theconversation.com/want-to-stop-biodiversity-loss-give-animals-property-rights-582
Web
- Animal Ethics. ‘Why wild animal suffering matters’.
Available at: https://www.animal-ethics.org/wild-animal-suffering-section/wild-animal-suffering-matters/ - Animal Ethics. ‘Animals in natural disasters’. Available at:
https://www.animal-ethics.org/wild-animal-suffering-section/wild-animals/animals-natural-disasters/ - Center on Long-Term Risk. (2020) ‘The importance of wild animal suffering’, by Tomasik, B. Available at: https://longtermrisk.org/the-importance-of-wild-animal-suffering/
- Faunalytics. (2017) ‘Bridging the gap between conservation and animal welfare’. Available at: https://faunalytics.org/bridging-gap-conservation-animal-welfare/
- Wild Animal Suffering Research. Available at: https://was-research.org/