The North American Model of Conservation: A Political Quagmire of Language and Ethics
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) is a set of seven principles that proponents claim when collectively applied has led to the successes of wildlife conservation and management in...
4 Elo 1h 49min
Impacts of Human Population Pressures on Animals
Human expansionism — both through the growth in our consumption and population — is the leading driver of cascading ecological and social crises. Animal exploitation, in the form of accelerating rates...
18 Heinä 1h 43min
One Health Ethics: Part 4— The Tree Kangaroo Conservation Project
The Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program was founded at the Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle, WA, USA) in 1996. It began as the first wild study of the endangered Matschie’s tree kangaroo in Papua New Guinea ...
1 Heinä 1h 30min
One Health Ethics and Conservation: Part 2— Historical and Practical Considerations
Over the last two decades One Health has gained prominence as a program paradigm among wildlife conservation practitioners. There is more than one definition of One Health but they share the starting ...
20 Kesä 1h 8min
One Health Ethics and Conservation: Part 1—One Health 101
The term “One Health” explicitly recognizes that the health and wellbeing of people, other animals, and nature are interdependent. While the goal of One Health is optimal health for all, in practice i...
13 Kesä 1h 10min
What It Means to Know an Animal
An elephant pauses at a crossroads. Her trunk rises, testing the air. She weighs memory, social awareness, the quality of the wind — then commits to a path. What does she know? And what follows, for s...
6 Kesä 1h 31min
Wellbeing and Animal Lives: Part 2
How does the concept of wellbeing inform animal lives? Wellbeing incorporates and yet extends previous ideas of animal welfare. It envisions in both a scientific and ethical sense how people should th...
23 Touko 1h 28min
