Compassionate conservation

Ramp, D; Solomon, ME

Compassionate conservation

Ramp, D

Solomon, ME

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Publisher:: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp. 91-94
Issue Date:: 2025-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Ramp, D https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3202-9898
dc.contributor.author	Solomon, ME
dc.date.accessioned	2026-01-27T02:44:29Z
dc.date.available	2026-01-27T02:44:29Z
dc.date.issued	2025-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp. 91-94
dc.identifier.isbn	9781803923666
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/192378
dc.description.abstract	Compassionate conservation arose as a scientific response to the lack of consideration of the welfare and relational lives of animals in mainstream conservation practices. With growing awareness of the depth and complexity of nonhuman existence, new ethical and practical approaches were required to overcome widespread and problematic dependency on consequentialist ethics. By employing virtue ethics, compassionate conservation prioritizes moral inclusion of all life while providing guidance on our moral obligations towards other beings. In doing so, compassionate conservation represents a paradigmatic and ontological repositioning of whom conservation is for and what it seeks to achieve. It incentivizes new policies and laws that promote equity and justice while creating new visions of safe cohabitation for all of Earth's inhabitants.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
dc.relation.ispartof	Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4337/9781803923673.00031
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	Compassionate conservation
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Provost
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Provost/TD School
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2026-01-27T02:44:28Z
pubs.publication-status	Published

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Compassionate conservation arose as a scientific response to the lack of consideration of the welfare and relational lives of animals in mainstream conservation practices. With growing awareness of the depth and complexity of nonhuman existence, new ethical and practical approaches were required to overcome widespread and problematic dependency on consequentialist ethics. By employing virtue ethics, compassionate conservation prioritizes moral inclusion of all life while providing guidance on our moral obligations towards other beings. In doing so, compassionate conservation represents a paradigmatic and ontological repositioning of whom conservation is for and what it seeks to achieve. It incentivizes new policies and laws that promote equity and justice while creating new visions of safe cohabitation for all of Earth's inhabitants.

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