Compassionate conservation

Daniel Ramp and Madden E. Solomon

Chapter 24 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp 91-94 from Edward Elgar Publishing

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.

Keywords: Compassion; Human exceptionalism; Intrinsic value; Virtue ethics; Justice; Guiding principles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923666
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