"Wildlife Conservation in Malawi"
This article discusses the history of wildlife conservation in Malawi from the beginning of the colonial period to the present day. It concludes by suggesting a new approach to wildlife conservation in Africa.
This article discusses the history of wildlife conservation in Malawi from the beginning of the colonial period to the present day. It concludes by suggesting a new approach to wildlife conservation in Africa.
David Cooper discusses the identification of what is wrong with the demise of wildlife and the human sentiments which are offended by that demise.
Marthe Kiley-Worthington discusses integration of wildlife conservation, food production and development in relation to ecological agriculture and elephant conservation in Africa.
John A. Curtis argues that there may be instances where assessing wildlife for monetary valuation might be quite reasonable and useful for public policy, even when there are strong arguments against valuation of wildlife and nature.
Jac A. A. Swart points at the fact that environmental ethics has to deal with the challenge of reconciling contrasting ecocentric and animal-centric perspectives and analyse the two classic attempts at this reconciliation.
In his essay, Robert L. Chapman analyzes the role of environmental restoration.
This article argues that hunting is not a sport, but a neo-traditional cultural trophic practice consistent with ecological ethics, including a meliorist concern for animal rights or welfare.
Following the establishment of the world’s first national park at Yellowstone (USA) in 1872, the concept was rapidly transferred to Australia, New Zealand and Canada. This article examines this second wave of adoption—and adaption—focussing on five case studies from Australia and New Zealand.
Hugo Reinert uses the highly endangered Lesser White-fronted Goose to develop an argument about a certain “biopolitics of the wild”—a particular mode of governing nonhuman life, rooted in certain conditions of visibility and engagement.
Harriet Ritvo’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities section views the proliferation of introduced species as a symptom rather than a cause, and urges the identification of the real causes through a reconsideration of the morally loaded rhetoric within which biological migration and transplantation are often couched.