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A New Definition of Conservation (opens the original)
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When appointed in 2021 to the Washington State’s Fish and Wildlife Commission, Fred Koontz, PhD, sought to define of the word “conservation” to better capture what we mean by wildlife management in the modern era. Yet crafting a modern definition generated a wave of hostility and resistance to the idea, which was seen as threatening the interests of the hunting, fishing, trapping, and agricultural communities. Eventually, Fred resigned, writing in his resignation letter that the Commission was "
The North American Model of Conservation: A Political Quagmire of Language and Ethics (opens the original)
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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) is a set of seven principles that proponents claim when collectively applied has led to the successes of wildlife conservation and management in the United States and Canada. Originally described as a historical account in the 1990’s by Valerius Geist, it soon thereafter gained wide acceptance as a prescriptive methodology for wildlife managers and government agencies responsible for sustaining game and furbearing populations. Over the last
Impacts of Human Population Pressures on Animals (opens the original)
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Human expansionism — both through the growth in our consumption and population — is the leading driver of cascading ecological and social crises. Animal exploitation, in the form of accelerating rates of species extinction, diminishment of wildlife populations, and rapid growth of factory farms, tracks with the growth of the human footprint. However, there is widespread dismissal of the role of population in these crises among journalists, academics, environmental organizations, and policymakers
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