Conservation welfare

Conservation welfare is a discipline which focuses on establishing the commonalities between conservation and animal welfare and the formation of a foundation upon which the two disciplines can collaborate to further their respective objectives.[1] It is based on the principles of Peter Singer's utilitarianism and similarly to compassionate conservation, its focus diverges from environmental ethics in that it concentrates on the welfare of individual animals, rather than species, ecosystems or populations.[2] It has been argued that conservation welfare is distinct from compassionate conservation because the two disciplines have differing conceptions of the harms experienced by wild animals and that while conservation welfare seeks to engage with conservation scientists and integrate animal welfare into existing conservation practices, compassionate conservation may lack the capacity to "guide decision-making in complex or novel situations."[3]

References

Beausoleil, Ngaio J.; Mellor, David J.; Baker, Liv; Baker, Sandra E.; Bellio, Mariagrazia; Clarke, Alison S.; Dale, Arnja; Garlick, Steve; Jones, Bidda; Harvey, Andrea; Pitcher, Benjamin J. (2018). ""Feelings and Fitness" Not "Feelings or Fitness"–The Raison d'être of Conservation Welfare, Which Aligns Conservation and Animal Welfare Objectives". Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 5. doi:10.3389/fvets.2018.00296. ISSN 2297-1769.
Learmonth, Mark James (November 2020). "Human–Animal Interactions in Zoos: What Can Compassionate Conservation, Conservation Welfare and Duty of Care Tell Us about the Ethics of Interacting, and Avoiding Unintended Consequences?". Animals. 10 (11): 2037. doi:10.3390/ani10112037.
Beausoleil, Ngaio J. (2020-02-06). "I Am a Compassionate Conservation Welfare Scientist: Considering the Theoretical and Practical Differences Between Compassionate Conservation and Conservation Welfare". Animals. 10 (2). doi:10.3390/ani10020257. ISSN 2076-2615. PMC 7070475. PMID 32041150.

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Conservation welfare

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