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  • Conservation Biology
  • Animal Welfare Ethics
  • Wildlife Management

Background:

  • Ethical considerations in wildlife conservation and animal welfare are increasingly prominent.
  • Diverse ethical perspectives exist regarding the protection and welfare of wild animals.
  • Managing overabundant wildlife populations presents significant ethical challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the advantages of a consequentialist ethical framework for managing wild herbivores.
  • To propose consumptive in situ killing as a method to minimize harm and achieve conservation goals for overabundant herbivores.
  • To compare the consequentialist approach with alternative ethical frameworks like deontology and virtue ethics.

Main Methods:

  • Application of a consequentialist harms ethical framework to wildlife management scenarios.
  • Analysis of potential welfare impacts on target and non-target species under different management strategies.
  • Comparison of consumptive killing with non-lethal methods and inaction.

Main Results:

  • Consumptive in situ killing offers several advantages, including short-term negative welfare states, avoidance of starvation, prevention of interspecific competition, and reduced agricultural animal use.
  • Alternative ethical approaches may lead to prolonged suffering or prohibitive costs associated with non-lethal methods.
  • The consequentialist approach maximizes funding for other conservation priorities.

Conclusions:

  • Animal-welfare consequentialism provides an effective ethical framework for managing overabundant wild herbivores.
  • This approach minimizes harm to individual animals and ecosystems while achieving conservation objectives.
  • Conservation stakeholders should consider this framework to balance animal welfare and conservation outcomes.