The ethics of intervening in animal behaviour for conservation

Thom van Dooren; Catherine J. Price; Peter B. Banks; Oded Berger-Tal; Matthew Chrulew; Jane Johnson; Gabrielle  Lajeunesse; Kate E. Lynch; Clare McArthur; Finn C. G. Parker; Myles  Oakey; Benjamin J. Pitcher; Colleen  Cassady St. Clair; Georgia Ward-Fear; Sam  Widin; Bob B. M. Wong; Daniel T. Blumstein

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.011

The ethics of intervening in animal behaviour for conservation

Thom van Dooren^*, Catherine J. Price^*, Peter B. Banks, Oded Berger-Tal, Matthew Chrulew, Jane Johnson, Gabrielle Lajeunesse, Kate E. Lynch , Clare McArthur, Finn C. G. Parker, Myles Oakey, Benjamin J. Pitcher, Colleen Cassady St. Clair, Georgia Ward-Fear, Sam Widin, Bob B. M. Wong, Daniel T. Blumstein^*

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Abstract

Conservation behaviour is a growing field that applies insights from the study of
animal behaviour to address challenges in wildlife conservation and management.
Conservation behaviour interventions often aim to manage specific behaviours
of a species to solve conservation challenges. The field is often viewed as
offering approaches that are less intrusive or harmful to animals than, for example, managing the impact of a problematic species by reducing its population size (frequently through lethal control). However, intervening in animal behaviour, even for conservation purposes, may still raise important ethical considerations. We discuss these issues and develop a framework and a decision support tool, to aid managers and researchers in evaluating the ethical considerations of conservation behaviour interventions against other options.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	822-830
Number of pages	9
Journal	Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Volume	38
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.011
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

Keywords

behavioural change
conservation behaviour
conservation ethics
conservation values
wildlife management

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van Dooren, T., Price, C. J., Banks, P. B., Berger-Tal, O., Chrulew, M., Johnson, J., Lajeunesse, G., Lynch , K. E., McArthur, C., Parker, F. C. G., Oakey, M., Pitcher, B. J., Cassady St. Clair, C., Ward-Fear, G., Widin, S., Wong, B. B. M., & Blumstein, D. T. (2023). The ethics of intervening in animal behaviour for conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38(9), 822-830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.011

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