December 2023 MBR The Pets/Wildlife Shelf

The Pets/Wildlife Shelf

Wildlife Ethics
Clare Palmer, et al.
Wiley-Blackwell
www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell
9781119611219, $140.00, PB, 304pp

https://www.amazon.com/Wildlife-Ethics-Management-Conservation-Welfare/dp/1119611210

Synopsis: Co-authored by the team of Clare Palmer, Bob Fischer, Christian Gamborg, Jordan Hampton, and Peter Sandee, "Wildlife Ethics: The Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation" is the first systematic, book-length discussion of the ethics of wildlife conservation and management, and examines the key ethical questions and controversies.

Tackling both theory and practice, the text is divided into two parts. The first describes key concepts, ethical theories, and management models relating to wildlife; the second puts these concepts, theories, and models to work, illustrating their significance through detailed case studies on controversies in wildlife management and conservation.

"Wildlife Ethics" explores pressing topics including human responsibilities due to climate change, tradeoffs when managing zoonotic disease risks, the ethics of the wildlife trade, culling non-native species, indigenous wildlife use, and zoo-based conservation programs. Readers are encouraged to explore different ways of valuing wild animals and their practical implications.

Essential reading, "Wildlife Ethics": Explains and explores relationships between valuing biodiversity, human utility, ecosystems, species, and animal welfare; Describes established approaches to wildlife management, such as sustainable use, and emerging concepts, such as compassionate conservation; Discusses key ethical theories, including utilitarianism, ecocentrism, and animal rights; Offers a practical model of how to analyze ethical issues in wildlife management and conservation.

Critique: A systematic account of the ethical issues related to wildlife management and conservation, "Wildlife Ethics: The Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation: is an informative introduction to complex ethical issues, making it significant resource for students and practitioners in fields such diverse fields as conservation biology, ecology, environmental science and policy, game management, public health and veterinary medicine. It will also be an invaluable tool for wildlife managers, conservationists, One Health practitioners, practicing veterinarians and animal rehabilitation staff, contemporary wildlife professionals and other stakeholders. "Wildlife Ethics" is an exceptional and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library Wildlife Biology and Management collections and supplemental Veterinary Medicine curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for students, academia, zoologists, animal rights activists, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Wildlife Ethics" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $112.00).

Editorial Note #1: Clare Palmer is the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts & Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University in the USA.

Editorial Note #2: Bob Fischer is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University in the USA.

Editorial Note #3: Christian Gamborg is Associate Professor in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Editorial Note #4: Jordan Hampton is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Lecturer at Murdoch University, and a Consultant Veterinarian for Ecotone Wildlife, all in Australia.

Editorial Note #5: Peter Sand e is Professor of Bioethics at the Department of Food and Resource Economics and Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

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