Revolutionizing Wildlife Conservation Beyond Traditional North American Lethal Methods

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Format: Hardcover Illustrator: Yes Item Width: 5.8 in Topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Animal Rights, Life Sciences / Zoology / General Number of Pages: Xvi, 273 Pages Author: Anja Heister Item Weight: 17.9 Oz Genre: Nature, Philosophy, Social Science, Science Book Title: Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation : from Lethal to Compassionate Conservation Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G Book Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Ser. Publication Year: 2022 gtin13: 9783031141485 Item Length: 8.3 in ISBN: 9783031141485 Language: English

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Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation : From Lethal to Compassionate Conservation, Hardcover by Heister, Anja, ISBN 3031141482, ISBN-13 9783031141485, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAM) is the driver of a strong anthropocentric stance, which has legalized an ongoing, annual exploitation of hundreds of millions of wild animals, who are killed in the United States through trapping, hunting and other lethal practices. Increasingly, the American public opposes the killing of wild animals for recreation, trophies and profit but has little—if any—knowledge of the Model. The purpose of this book is to empower the public with knowledge about the NAM’s insufficiencies and to help expedite the shift from lethal to compassionate conservation, an endeavour urgently needed particularly under the threats of climate change, human population growth and accelerating plant and animal species extinctions. With a focus on trapping, this book exposes the NAM's belief in human supremacy and its consequences for wild animals and their ecosystems, the same value that is driving the ongoing global destruction of nature and accelerating species extinction. Motivated by a deep concern for wild animals who suffer and whose lives are extinguished each year by 'sportsmen and women', this book exposes the violent treatment of wild animals inherent in governmental-promoted hunting and trapping programs, while emphasizing the importance of empathy and compassion for other animals in conservation and in our lives.