Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-18288-5 (ISBN)
Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation explores how conservationists decide whether, and how, to undertake rehabilitation and reintroduction (R&R) when rescuing orphaned orangutans. The author demonstrates that exploring ethical dilemmas is crucial for understanding ongoing disagreements about how to help endangered wildlife in an era of anthropogenic extinction.
Although R&R might appear an uncontroversial activity, there is considerable debate about how, and why, it ought to be practised. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research with orangutan conservation practitioners, this book examines how ethical trade-offs shape debates about R&R. For example, what if the orphan fails to learn how to be an orangutan again, after years in the company of humans? What if she is sent into the forest only to slowly starve? Would she have been better off in a cage? Could the huge cost of sending a rescued ape back to the wild be better spent on stopping deforestation in the first place? Or do we have a moral obligation to rescue the orphan regardless of cost? This book demonstrates that deconstructing ethical positions is crucial for understanding ongoing disagreements about how to help our endangered great ape kin and other wildlife.
Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation is essential reading for those interested in conservation and animal welfare, animal studies, primatology, geography, environmental philosophy, and anthropology.
Alexandra Palmer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geography at the University of Oxford, with a background in social anthropology and primatology. Her work centres around ethical dimensions of human relationships with other animals, especially non-human primates. Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation is based on her doctoral work at University College London. Her other research has looked at zookeeper–orangutan relationships and ethics and regulation in non-laboratory animal research (including with wildlife).
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: To Save is to Sacrifice
Approach
Methodology
What Are Ethics?
Conservation, Welfare, Liberation
Triage and Trade-Offs
Roadmap
Chapter 1: Orangutans and their Conservation
Orangutans: A Natural and Cultural History
Conservation: The Old, the New, and the Ugly
Pancasila and Palm Oil: Conservation in Indonesia
Orangutans as Tourism Mascots: Conservation in Malaysian Borneo
"Please Don’t Set Up Any More!" The NGO Network
Orangutans in the Anthropocene
Chapter 2: Kill, Incarcerate, or Liberate? Alternatives to Reintroduction
Orangutan Reintroduction: Conservation Tool or Cry in the Wilderness?
Replenishing Wild Populations: A Post-Hoc Argument?
Forest Restoration and Protection: Reintroduction as Political Incentive for Conservation
Law Enforcement: Is Trade a Cause of Consequence of Orangutan Endangerment?
Ignoring Displaced Wildlife "Breaks the Hearts of People": Educational Benefits of R&R
Freedom isn’t Free: The Cost-(In)effectiveness of R&R
Killing
What Counts as Euthanasia?
Personhood and Penance: Orangutan Rights and Human Responsibilities
Sentience and Speciesism: The Ethics of Killing Orangutans Versus Other Species
Incarceration
Surplus and Scarcity: The Practical Problem of Housing Orphaned Orangutans
Where is "Home"? Orangutans and Nationality
Life of Luxury or Prison? The Welfare Implications of Captivity Versus the Wild
Integrity, Islam, and Independence: Wildness as Inherently Valuable
Weighing Wildness and Welfare
Chapter 3: What is a Rehabilitation Centre? Boundary-Work in Conservation
What’s in a Name? The Preference for "Rehabilitation Centre" Over "Sanctuary"
To Breed or Not to Breed? Distinguishing Rehabilitation Centres from Zoos
Dehuminization and Dualisms: Defining Wildness
Sustainability and Sacrifice: The Ethics of Wildlife Tourism
A Tenuous Boundary?
A Counter Example: Rehabilitation Centre or Release Site?
Chapter 4: Sense and Sentimentality: Emotion in Environmental Ethics
Eyes and PIEs: The Development of Ethical Stances
Feelings and Facts: The Relationship Between Emotion and Rationality
Selfishness and Sacrifice: Two Specific Worries About Emotion in Orangutan Conservation
Triage and Trouble: More Thought, Not Less Emotion
Chapter 5: No Space on the Ark: Triage in Wildlife Rescue
Selecting Citizens: Sacrifice and Speciesism in Admission Practices
Creating Two Problems, or Solving One? The Dilemma of Translocation
The Sliding Scale
Chapter 6: Wild, Well, or Free? Ethical Debates in Rehabilitation Methods
Motherly or Tough Love? Negotiating Human-Orangutan Boundaries in Rehabilitation
Persevering Purity or Process? Mixing Taxa at Release Sites
Defining Unreleasability: Training, Trauma, and Triage
Wild Abandon(ment): The Challenges of Post-Release Monitoring
The "Grey Zone": Healthcare and the Transition to Wildness
Free or Enslaved? Post-Release Feeding and the Question of Free Will
Who is the Expert?
Chapter 7: Bosses, Baddies, and "Baby Huggers": The Ethics of Conservation Fundraising
Oversight and Ownership: Relationships with Foundations and Donor-NGOs
Palm Oil and Other Dirty Money
Playing to the "Baby Huggers": Cuteness and Commodification
Expertise and Ethics: Two Worries About Fundraising
Chapter 8: The "Dark Side": (Un)ethics and Whistleblowing in Conservation
My Orangutan, Your Orangutan: Narratives of Collaboration and Conflict
Public or Private Secrets? The Ethics of Whistleblowing
Should Outsiders Speak Out?
Conclusion: Ethics in the Anthropocene
References
Interviews
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.03.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-18288-2 / 0367182882 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-18288-5 / 9780367182885 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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