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Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: From Lethal to Compassionate Conservation
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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9783031141515 |
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Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Publication date: | 10/27/2022 |
Series: | The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2022 |
Pages: | 273 |
Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d) |
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Animal Standpoint.- Chapter 3: The North American Model for Wildlife Conservation.- Chapter 4: The Existing Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.- Chapter 5: The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation’s Selective Use of Ethics to Support Exploitation of Wild Animals.- Chapter 6: NAM’s Science and Impacts of Policies in Pacific and Mountain West Regions.- Chapter 7: Crime Scenes in the Woods: The NAM and Cruelty against Wild Animals.- Chapter 8: Abandoning Human Entitlement: Empathy, Compassion, and Rights for Nonhuman Animals.What People are Saying About This
“Anja Heister's Beyond the North American Model for Wildlife Conservation is an informed and passionate critique of the dark side of government-orchestrated exploitation and destruction of wildlife in the U.S. promoted by the archaic North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, and a guide for opening our hearts to compassionate conservation. She delves into the hard and disheartening facts of rampant violence in the practice of hunting and trapping and how ‘wildlife conservation’ has been hijacked by sportsmen. Heister successfully argues that it's high time to eradicate the ‘Wildlife Conservation-Industrial Killing Complex’ and bring compassion and justice to wild animals.”
-Marc Bekoff, The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age and A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans
“A wolf's playful snowboard down a frozen hillside; twin fawns manic games of chase-methrough a summer meadow; an affectionate clutch of female rattlesnakes basking in the desert sun; ravens playing stick catch mid-air-all wild animals are capable of and deserve joy. Heister exposes the violence embedded in the "North American Wildlife Industrial Complex" that results in so much misery to wild animals. And she offers a more compassionate, a more joyful, alternative.”
-Deborah Slicer, Poet and Philosopher
The new gold rush targets wildlife. Anja Heister’s thoroughly researched book exposes dark truths hidden from society. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, to which wildlife agencies pledge allegiance, has gaps and flaws exploited by the powerful hunting industry, grinding down our wildlife and accelerating climate change.
Heister points out the need to shift from seeing animals as renewable crops to animals as individuals who deserve personhood on an equal standing with human animals. Otherwise, we perish. Thisbook gives us the background and language to make change. It is essential reading for understanding how we got here, and for the practice of animal law.
-Connie Poten, Author of a National Geographic Cover Story on the Illegal Trade of Wildlife, and Co-Founder of Footloose Montana
“There is no possible justification for extinguishing the life of a fellow sentient creature purely for entertainment. Yet the trophy hunting industry has spent decades dressing up its perverse ‘sport’ as a public service. It has sought to hypnotise policymakers with the bizarre mantra that shooting animals is somehow good for them. Just as 1984 taught us that War is Peace and that Freedom is Slavery, so now Killing is Conservation – apparently.
It is a narrative that is straight out of the PR textbook used by other destructive and dying industries. The tobacco giants used to advertise brands that were supposedly recommended by doctors. Big oil told us that global warming would green the planet. You don’t have to scratch too deeply to uncover the truth behind these veneers. When you speak directly to trophy hunters, about why they do it, as I have, conservation never comes into the conversation. Instead, you will hear all about the thrill of the chase and the adrenaline rush which some have likened to an addiction to narcotics.
The root cause of many of the malaises we are confronted with today as a civilisation is the pernicious notion that everything around us is essentially merely a resource for our exploitation, and that nothing should impinge on this fundamental freedom. Heister’s book brilliantly explores and exposes the contradictions and the destructive legacy of this mindset which now threatens all life on earth – including ours.”
-Eduardo Gonçalves, Founder, Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting